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Notes on the Life-histories of Two Mesopotamian Moths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Rao Sahib Y. Ramachandra Rao
Affiliation:
Assistant Entomologist, Agricultural College, Coimbatore.

Extract

The following few notes are intended to supplement the excellent account of the life-history and habits of this insect already published by Mr. P. A. Buxton (Bull. Ent. Res. xi, pp. 181–186). Working as an Assistant Entomologist under the Agricultural Directorate at Baghdad, during the year 1919–1920, I had a few opportunities of observing this pest in Mesopotamia. I met with it in small numbers at Museyib on the Euphrates in June 1920, and at Karradah (a suburb of Baghdad) from June to the middle of September of the same year. It is evidently sporadic in its distribution; for I did not find it in gardens at Jadriyah, situated only three miles west of Karradah, nor did I notice it in any of the gardens at Hillah, which is situated on the Euphrates, about 25 miles south of Museyib.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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