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took place in the Punjab, the Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, and 

 Shahpur districts being invaded. The origin of these flights has not been satis- 

 factorily traced, but the fact that the eggs were deposited both in August and 

 September in the Dera Ismail Khan district, and in the early pait of September 

 in the Dera Ghazi Khan district, would seem to point to their having had, at 

 Least in this case, an origin other than Western Rajputana, where the breeding 

 season had recently terminated. Locusts were also reported in this month in 

 Sbikarpur and in Ahmedabad. In the case of Ahmedabad, however, no specimens 

 were obtained, and there seems to be some doubt as to the identity of the locust 

 which was said to have appeared. It was in this month that the first locusts were 

 reported as being noticed in Persia ; Shargah being invaded by flights which were 

 said to have deposited eggs, and not to have disappeared until about June, 1890. 

 Flights were also reported as present in parts of British Baluchistan. The Per- 

 sian and Baluchistan reports, however, are from too limited areas to admit of any 

 very general conclusions being based upon them. 



In October, 1869, flights were agaiu reported from Sind, the Western Punjab 

 (Multan, Shahpur, and Dera Ghazi Khan), and Rajputana i^Jeypur, Ulwar, Bhurt- 

 pur, Tonk, Bundi, Shahpura, Jhallavvar, Ajmere-Merwara, and Jodhpur), as well 

 as from Allahabad in the North-West Provinces, and from Ahmedabad, Baioda, 

 and Khaudeish to the south. They also appeared in the island of Kishim in the 

 Persian Gulf. There is evidence to shew that eggs were laid both in Jodhpur and 

 Ajmere-Merwara about this lime, but the precise dates are somewhat uncertain. 

 Eggs were also reported to have been laid in this month in the Dera Ghazi Khan 

 district, and it is thought probable that these eggs, unlike the eggs deposited iu 

 this district in September, were laid by a stray flight from Rajputana. 



hi .November, 1889, young locusts hatched out in Ajmere-Merwara. Flights 

 were again reported in many parts of Rajputana ^Bikanir, Ulwar, Bhurtpur, 

 Kerowli, Dholepur, Bundi, Shahpura, Touk, Kotah, Jhallawar, Ajmere-Merwara, 

 and Jeypurj, aud there was a general movement towards the east, the whole of 

 the North- West Provinces (Muttra, Aligarh, Jhansi, Etah, Hardoi, Hamirpur, 

 Banda, Agra, Bara Banki, Fatehpur, Jalaun, Kheri, Rae Bareli, Cavvnpur, Etawah, 

 Bareilly, Kuinaou, Shahjahanpur, Unao, Tarai, Bahraich, Gonda, Jaunpur, Lalit- 

 pur, and Sultanpur) being visited at intervals by flights which appear to have 

 flown across from Rajputana. A stray flight also reached the Vizagapatam, 

 Kishna, and Godavari districts in the Madras Presidency, but the precise route 

 taken by it has not been traced. In this month the locusts appear to have been 

 widely prevalent over a vast area to the west, their presence being uofciced all up 

 the Persian Gulf and also in the Red Sea. 



In December, 1SS9, flights were again reported from Rajputana (Jeypur, Ulwar, 

 Bhurtpur, Jhallawar, and Ajmere-Merwara), the North-West Provinces (Rae 

 Bareli, Fatehgarh, Naini Tal, Muttra, Azamgarh, Basti, Gharwal, Fyzabad), the 

 Vizagapatam district in the Madras Presidency, the Goona Agency iu Central 

 India, and from parts of British Baluchistan (11 ami route between Sibi and Sharig, 



