Excerpt from Biology of the Lotus Borer (Pyrausta Penitalis Grote) At the time of the first visit, July 19, the main blooming season was closing. There were still a few flowers and scattering buds. None of the seed pods had ripened, but the oldest ones were fully grown. A count showed that there were 472 pods in all stages in the plantation. Of these, 80 (17 per cent) showed work of the larvae and were collected and examined individually. They contained 39 empty pupal shells, 23 pupae, and 2 larvae in the prepupal stage. Moths began to emerge at once, or, more properly, continued to emerge from the pupae until July 28, when the last one appeared. 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.