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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. VIII. 
Paluzawa stream ; in the Kyaukka Reserve timber is comparatively 
free from beeholes, in the Bon Reserve the borer is more abundant 
and in the Chin Hills it is fairly common. The borer is not found 
regularly throughout the forests but sporadically in patches. In the 
Taungdwin drainage the pest is comparatively rare, but is more plentiful 
in low-lying and sheltered localities than in higher and more hilly country. 
The Bombay-Burma Trading Corporation point out that, while 
timber is very badly beeholed in the region of the north branch of the 
Paluzawa stream, the forests of the neighbouring Nanzalein stream 
are hardly attacked by the borer. 
The forests of the Matu, Bon, Kyaukka and Taungdwin Reserves 
are of the dry mixed type in which Xylia dolabriformis and Tenninalia 
tomentosa are the predominant associates of teak ; the country is hilly 
with north and south ridges between 2,000 and 3,000 feet in elevation. 
[D. F. O., Jan. 1914.] 
7. Lower Chindwin. 
A regularly occurring pest. [D. F. O., Oct. 1913.] 
The presence of the borer is exceptional. Instances of attack were 
noticed in timber extracted from the lower slopes of compartments 
36—47, Pantalon Reserve, Pwedon drainage [D. F. O., Sept. 1919.] 
The forests mentioned are moist deciduous, fire protected to 1911 and 
situated in highly dissected hills (1,000 feet), with a rainfall of about 
50." Teak reproduction is fairly good. 
Southern Circle. 
8. Yaw. 
The beehole borer is nowhere very plentiful, but is found to a 
certain extent in most teak forests, but most plentifully in the Kyaw 
Reserve, Pauk Range, and in the North and South Gangaw Working 
Circles, Gangaw r sub-division. Beeholed timber is not often found in 
the Yaw Working Circle. In the Kyaw Reserve it is most plentiful in 
the hilly mixed teak forests, where the soil is dry and sandy and 
well-drained. In the Gangaw Working Circle, the timber lessees state 
that they find it most plentifully on the lower slopes of hills and in the 
denser forests. [D. F. O., Sept. 1919.] The Working Plans [1916 and 
1917] for these reserves make no reference to the borer, and the 
Divisional Officer observed in 1905 that the borer did not occur in 
Gangaw sub-division. 
The forests of the upper mixed type occur in hill country ^ 1,500 
feet with a rainfall of 50-60 inches. 
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