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done carefully. If anumber of young plants are cut out for borers 
they should be stacked and burnt in one heap and not be cut up 
at all. Every part should, however, be thoroughly burned. This 
remedy should be vigorously put into force when bad attacks 
similar to that cf 1891 in Mysore have to be coped with. 
Points in the itfe-history requiring further observation. 
1. The length of time spent in the larval stage, Is it 
under or over a year? ‘I found some apparently 
nearly, if not quite, full-grown larve in the first 
week in August. These were brought to me as 
the sandal pest. : 
2. The period of emergence of the moth, Mr. Green 
has stated that in Ceylon the moth does not 
appear to issue at any one particular period of the 
_ year. A moth was: bred: out in the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta, on the gth February. 
3. What predaceous and parasitic insects prey upon 
this borer? 
