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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Punjab is of course by no means the only, or even the largest, cotton- 

 growing Province within the Indian Empire, the total area under cotton 

 in the various provinces of India in 1917-18* being : — 



Province 



Bombay 



Central Provinces and Berar 



Hyderabad State . 



Madras 



Punjab 



United Provinces . 



Central India States 



Rajputana . 



Sind .... 



Burma 



Mysore 



Bihar and Orissa . 



North-West Frontier Province 



Bengal 



Ajmer-Merwara 



Assam 



Total 



Area (acres) 



8,227,000 

 4,582,000 

 3,451,000 

 2,592,000 

 1,799,000 

 1,316,000 

 1,434,000 



Yield (bales 



of 400 lb. 



each) 



1,571,000 

 591,000 

 450,000 

 569,000 

 271,000 

 198,000 

 116,000 



In all these areas Bollworms (usually all the three species) occur and 

 levy an annual toll on the cotton-crop which in normal years may be 

 estimated at anything between twenty and fifty millions of rupees. 

 The damage done by the Bollworms is very insidious and the ordinary 

 cultivator, although he is aware that damage is being done, is unable 

 to calculate the loss, and this accounts for the way he puts up with the 

 loss patiently from year to year. In the case of a leaf-eating insect he 

 sees the leaves and shoots of the plants being devoured and he at once 



* Estimates of Area an I Yield of Principal Crnps in India, 1917-18 (Department 

 of Statistics, Nj. 766; 1918). 



