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Pond Life in the Punjab. 



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and its larvae, the cost of destruction would be much less as 



compared with that in the malarial season, when the mosquito 

 is breeding with great activity, and practically every small 

 pool and puddle serves as its breeding place. 



Summing up, it may be said that the climatic conditions in 

 the Punjab are quite different from those in Bengal, and that 

 the season most congenial for the lower forms of life is not the 

 winter, but the greater part of the summer, when all forms of 

 life can flourish, and in this it resembles more the countries of 

 Europe. 



