26-2 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



through the Central Agricultural Department, the Directors of Land Records and 

 Agriculture of Bombay, the Punjab, North-West Provinces, and Bengal, the 

 Board of Revenue, Madras, and the Agent to the Governor-General in Rajputana. 

 The dates of appearance of many of the swarms have been taken from the Crop 

 and Weather Reports issued by the Local Governments. The following is a list 

 of the chief sources of information : — Reports, in most cases accompanied by 

 specimens, from the District Officers of Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Amritsar, 

 Azamgarh, Bahraich, Banda, Bara Banki, Bareilly, Basti, Bijapur, Bogra, Broach, 

 Cawnpur, Chittagong, Cuddapah, Dacca, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, 

 Etah, Erawah, Farukhabad, Fatehpur, Fyzabad, Garhwal, Gonda, Gurgaon, 

 Hamirpur, Hardoi, Hissar, Jhansi, Jaunpur, Jalaun, Jhelum, Jullundur, Karachi, 

 Kheri, Kistna, Kohat, Kumaon, Kurnool, Lahore, Lalitpur, Muttra, Muzaffar- 

 garh, North Arcot, Partabgarh, Peshawar, Poona, Rae Bareli, Rajshahye, 

 Ratnagiri, Rawalpindi, Rungpur, Sambalpur, Shahjahanpur, Shahpur, Shikarpur, 

 Sholapur, Simla, Sukkur, Sultanpur, Tarai, Unao, and Vizagapatam ; the Acting 

 Political Agent, Mahi Kautha tract, Bombay, the Political Agent of Haiaoti and 

 Tonk, the Forest Officer in charge of the Bashahr Division, the Manager of the 

 Jevpur Estate, the Chairman of the Fureedpur Municipality, the Political Agent, 

 Aajpipla State, the Political Agent, Bikanir, the Secretary to the Musahibala, 

 Marwar, the British Agent in Shiraz, the Resident in Lingah, the Residency 

 Agents in Bahrein and Shargah, the Coal Agent, Bassidore, the Secretary to 

 the Municipal Committee, Amritsar, the Superintendent, Government Horticul 

 tural Gardens, Lucknow, the Superintendent of the Government Central Museum, 

 Madias, Colonel E. C. Ross, Major C. A. R. Sage, Captains H. A. Deane and 

 Barbara, Surgeon-Majors Ross and Hendley, and Messrs. F. W. P. Macdonald, 

 W. Coldstream, W. Haxworth, W. D. Cumming, G. H. Kearney, C F. Elliott, 

 J. Cleghorn, M. Donaldson, R. Blechynden, and B. C. Bosu. 



Reference has also been made to Hunter's Gazetteer, and to reports, in the 

 Proceedings of the Revenue and Agricultural Department, by Surgeon-General 

 W. Moore, Lieutenant-Colonel Swinhoe, Lieutenant-Colonel Bradford, Colonel 

 J. C Brooke, and Mr. Henvey; also to a'report on the rainfall in Rajputana, 

 furnished by the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of Bengal. 



E. C. Cotes, 



The 1st December, 1890. Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



(Published with the permission of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.) 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. I.— SHINGLE AND SHELLS FROM THE BEACH AT 



UMBARGAUM. 



Here in Bombay we are accustomed to expect only trappean pebbles on the 

 shore, or, if we find a bit of sedimentary rock, to refer it to "' ballast from some 

 boat," and this one degree and more to the north and south of the harbour. 



