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Khort-Kharmai, and further camp stations). The cold, however, appears to have 

 begun to tell upon them, as reports of their appearance in this month are very 

 much less numerous than in November. 



In January, 1890, there seems to have been still less activity amongst the flights, 

 as the only report of their presence in Rajputana is from Ajmere-Merwara, though 

 they spread to some extent over parts of the Punjab (Lahore, Ferozepur, 

 Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, Rawalpindi, and Jhelum); 

 and were noticed in parts of Sind, also in Agra in the North-West Provinces, and 

 in the Kistna district in Madras, a big flight being also indefinitely reported as 

 present in British Baluchistan. 



During February, 1890, flights were still to be found in the Punjab (Lahore, 

 Rawalpindi, Dera Ismail Khan, Jhelum, Amritsar, and Shahpur), and in Sind 

 ( Shikarpur and Upper Sind Frontier), as well as in British Baluchistan and in 

 Persia. They were also said to have bred in the Bahrein Island in the Persian 

 Gulf, and, according to a native report from Quetta, young locusts hatched out 

 in Afghanistan near Kandahar. Much reliance, however, cannot be placed on 

 this last information, and it is thought not improbable .that the young insects 

 referred to had been seen, some time in the summer of 1889, in the sandy Rajis- 

 tan desert, which is very likely to be one of the regular breeding-grounds of the 

 insect. The flights which had invaded the North-West Provinces and Madrasseeru 

 by this time to have died off, as nothing was heard of them after January. 



In March, 1890, flights were reported from Amritsar, Dera Ismail Khan, Pesha- 

 war, and Rawalpindi in the Punjab ; from Shikarpur and the Upper Sind 

 Frontier in Sind; as well as from British Baluchistan and from Persia ; and eggs 

 were laid in considerable numbers in the Peshawar, Rawalpindi, and Shikarpur 

 districts. 



In April, 1890, young locusts hatched out in large numbers in Shikarpur, and 

 also in Rawalpindi. In Shikarpur most of the hatching seems to have taken 

 place in the early part of the month, and some of the locusts reared in Calcutta 

 from eggs sent from Shikarpur acquired wings before the end of the month ; but 

 in Rawalpindi the brood was somewhat later, most of the hatching taking place 

 about the middle of the month. 



In May, 1890, flights were reported in the Hyderabad, Upper Sind Frontier, and 

 Karachi districts, the direction of their origin appearing to be chiefly from the 

 west, though much reliance cannot be placed upon this statement for the reasons 

 already indicated. 



In June, 1890, on the 1st of the month, the young locusts in Rawalpindi were 

 said to be acquiring wings, and shortly afterwards numerous winged flights were 

 reported from Sind (Shikarpur, Hyderabad, and Upper Sind Frontier); while there 

 is indirect evidence to shew that they were largely present in Rajputana, though 

 actual reports of their appearance have only been received from Bikanir and Bhurt- 

 pur. There was also a general movement across the North -West Provinces and 

 Oudh, flights being reported from Agra, Hardoi, Sultanpur, Partabgarh, Fyzabad, 



