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beginning of July of this year, locusts appeared in bhe Hissar and Ainritsav districts. 

 There is no record of what became of the Hi<sar insects, but in Amritsar, 

 according to the district report, they did a little damage to the crops, and 

 young wingless locusts appeared in the end of August and early part of Septem- 

 ber, but were all destroyed 



In 1872, in the Punjab, locusts were reported in July and August from Rohtak, 

 Multan, Bannu, Jhelum, Dera Ghazi Khan, and llissar. Eggs were laid in 

 Rohtak in the early part of July, and young hatched out in Rohtak and Jhelum 

 at the end of the month. The Dera Ghazi Khan district, however, is the only 

 one in which any damage was recorded. In Rajputana a flight was recorded by 

 Surgeon-Major Moore to have passed over Sirohi on the 31st of May of this year. 

 According to Surgeon-Major Hendley's report vast flights appeared in August in 

 Marwar, and great numbers of young hatched out about the end of August or 

 beginning of September, occasioning "much damage" to the crops. 



In 1873, flights were reported in the Jhelum and Amritsar districts, eggs being 

 laid and some damage done to the crops. In the Amritsar district the villagers 

 are said to have followed the flights and destroyed all the eggs and young locusts 

 that could be found. 



In both 1876 and 1877, locusts were observed about July in the Hissar district. 

 In 1878, besides being reported from Rajputana, they are noticed in the district 

 reports as having appeared in Dera Ghazi Khan in May and in Hissar in the 

 end of June. 



In 1879, according to a notice in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 

 of London, locusts appeared early in March near Meerut, covering a tract of 

 country about 15 miles long by 2 or 3 miles broad, and gradually moving north- 

 wards up the Anupshahr branch of the Ganges canal. They laid eggs over the 

 whole area, and before the end of the month the ground was covered with little 

 black larvae. Considerable damage was done to peas and mustard, but not much 

 to the grain, which was then being cut. In the district reports also locusts are 

 noticed in this year in Hissar, coming from the Rajputana desert in April and 

 again in July, as well as in Dera Ghazi Khan, where damage was done in 

 September. 



In 1880, in July and August, flights appeared in the Dera Ghazi Khan district 

 and did much damage to the kharif crops. Considerable damage was done about 

 this year in Jeypur by a large flight recorded by Surgeon-Major Heudlev, who 

 also writes that the trains on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway found it difficult to 

 proceed owing to the rails being made slippery by the dead bodies of the locusts. 

 A flight also, which may have belonged to the species under consideration, 

 though other locusts also visit the district, appeared in Jullundur in April, 1880, 

 and deposited eggs, which were all destroyed by the people. 



The reports, out of which the foregoing account has been pieced together, have 



Sources of information. been to ° numerous for individual reference in the 



text. The majority of them have been furnished 



