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and August) ; injures the leaves and stems of the plants, and thus causes destruction 

 of whole and sonietimes half of them. 



" 4. Maija—Qo\ox white ; face red, no wings ; \ inch in'length ; originates in field ; 

 injures the stem in Ashar and Sraban (July and August) ; when these insects attack 

 any field they maKe damages to almost all the crops. 



" 5. Sani — Color brown ; winged ; length one inch ; injures the bunch of corn in 

 Agrahayan and Pous (November and December). 



" 6. Araugi — Body black ; face red ; breast white ; 1| inch in length ; injures the 

 stalk and stem of the corn in Agrahayan and Pous (November and December) ; some- 

 times a quarter to three-eighths of the crop is damaged by it. 



" 7. Leda — Color whitish ; face black ; no wings ; originates in field ; injures the 

 stalk of paddy leaves of capsicum, hrinjal, hean, pea, gourd {humra), and a stalk-liko 

 plant called {data), &c. 



"8. Large Gandhi— Qo\ovh\2i(h\ shape round; having bad smell in its body; 

 causes inflammation if any one touches it, injures bean, pea, cucumber, gourd (kumra), 

 leaves of brinjal, &c. 



" 9. Small Gandhi. — Color red, spotted with black ; smaller in size than the 

 former one ; damages the plants mentioned above. 



" 10. Karijpoha — Color green ; winged ; injures cucumber, gourd, &c." 



The foUowlDg is an extract from a letter from Baboo Kailash 



Chandra Rai, of Dihurda, dated 17th August 1888, 



a asore i p . ^^ ^j^^ Collector, Balasore, forwarded by the 



Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal— 



" At present I beg leave to draw your attention to two sorts of insects. One of 

 them is ' Mulia poka,' or insect destroying the root. This ' Mulia poha ' is a great 

 pest of the young paddy plants. It comes into existence when there is drought 

 or scanty rain, and destroys most of the plants of the field. It disappears or dies 

 ■when rain begins to fall copiously. But the plants injured by the pest become rotten 

 and fall down as the rain water increases. Fields infested by the ' Mulia ' insect 

 do not produce good crops, although resown with much care afterwards. Some people 

 burn the straw that remains in the field after the crop is gathered^ with a belief that 

 such burning checks the pest of the • Mulia ' insect, but it is difiicult to say how far 

 the remedy is effective. Specimens of these insects cannot be had at present, as they 

 are all gone under water," 



The following extract is taken from a report 

 A Monghyr report. ^^^^^ ^^^ December 1888, forwarded by the Collec- 

 tor of Monghyr : — 



" 1. The most terrible pest of crops here is an insect called Kajra which eats up 

 not only paddy, but also all the rabi crops. It is a snail-like animal, about two or three 

 inches long, and is of a dark complexion. The similar, but smaller, species is called 

 Larka, which eats up rabi crops. The Bhua, or caterpillar, is well known. There 

 are three species of this insect, red, black and white, which appear whenever there are 

 clouds and fogs in November or December, and devastate the rabi crops ; but if 

 there be any heavy shower they generally die and disappear, and the crops are saved. 

 iaA», a kind of small insect, is very injurious to rabi crops, especially to mustard. 

 There is a Dhoosur-colored (earth-colored) insect called, Gadhya or Kutooa keera, 

 which does much harm to the Aghany paddy by cutting the ears of the crop. The 

 Bahhui, which is of the size of a large fly, devastates the paddy. 



