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Excerpt from Some Account of the 'Palan Byoo' or 'Teindoung Bo' (Paraponyx Oryzalis): A Lepidopterous Insect-Pest of the Rice-Plant in Burma Which in the Caterpillar Stage Breathes Water by Means of Tracheal-Gills
For of the insects who nipped the leaves some remain, some are carried off with the leaves, and eventually, wafted by the wind, attach themselves to plants, and crawl up the hollow of the stalk. This blight is liable to occur from Tawthalin (september) to Thadingyoot (october). Should it then appear, the leaves turn white and shortly afterwards some plants die off; the remainder are weakly and do not fruit well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
