THE LOCUST OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 



Cawnpur, Banda, Farukabad, Hamirpur, Jhansi, Aziragarh, Mnzuffarnagar, Etah, 

 Allahabad, Jaunpur, and Lucknow. Towards the latter part of the month, flights 

 appeared in the Gurgaon district of the Punjab from the west and laid eggs from 

 which emerged young locusts, which were still being destroyed in the beginning of 

 August; when the report was received. No information has been received about 

 the movement of the locusts in Baluchistan and Persia during this month, but the 

 steamer Yang-t*e is reported to have passed through vast masses of locusts which 

 were found floating over some S00 miles of her course in the Red Sea. 



In July, 1890, flights were again reported from Sind (Karachi, Shikarpur, 

 Hyderabad, and Upper Sind Frontier), also from parts of the Punjab (Lahore, 

 Umballa, Amritsar, and Delhi), while notice was incidentally received of their 

 presence in Shiraz (Persia). But the most important feature to notice in this 

 month is the very extensive breeding of young locusts which took place in the 

 Jodhpur and Bikanir States of Rnjputana, as it is probable that these insects 

 were the ones which compose the flights that afterwards invaded the whole of the 

 Central Provinces and the Presidencies of Bombay, Madras, and Bengal. The 

 young locusts already referred to were present during the whole of this month in 

 the Gurgaon district of the Punjab, but they appear to have been comparatively 

 few in number : they were no doubt the offspring of some stray flight from Bikanir. 



In August, 1890, egg-laying took place in the Kohat and Amritsar districts. 

 Flights were reported from various parts of the Punjab (Muzaffargarh, Kohat, 

 Multan, Dera Ismail Khan, Shahpur, Ferozepur, Amritsar, and Lahore), also 

 from Sind (Karachi, Shikarpur, Hyderabad, and Upper Sind Frontier) and from 

 Agra; while young locusts were still being destroyed in the Gurgaon district. 

 Outside Imlia, the Peninsular and Oriental ship Rome passed through vast flights 

 both along the shores of Arabia near to Aden, and also for two days after entering 

 the southern portion of the Red Sea- Winged locusts also were reported from 

 Quetta, though in what numbers is uncertain. 



In September, 1890, in the beginning of the month, young locusts were reported 

 from Ferozepur; also egg-laying in several villages of Kohat. Flights were 

 reported from Agra and various parts of Sind (Karachi, Hyderabad, and Shikar- 

 pur), and a general move was made into the Central Provinces, the Hoshangabad, 

 Nagpur, and Balaghat districts being visited by large flights which seemed 

 generally to come from the North-West, and which did a considerable amount of 

 injury to the crops in the villages where they settled. 



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

 Karachi, and Shikarpur districts in Sind, in the Ajmere district, and in Bikanir, 

 Bhurtpur, and Alwar States in Rajputana; also in the Dera Ismail Khan, Shahpur, 

 Amritsar, and Lahore districts of the Punjab, and in the Agra, Fatehpur, Hamir- 

 pur, and Fyzabad districts of the North-West Provinces. Flights also reached 

 the Himalayas (Kumaon, Nairn Tal, Simla, and Bashahr), passing and repasse- 

 m<* over the outer ranges. But the most noticeable feature in this mouth was the 

 general movement that was made by the flights, through Central India, into the 



