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its appearance in print at all is the work of this Presidency or of 

 some people in it. 



It may now, however, on merely utilitarian grounds, be recom- 

 mended to such members of the Society as may want a modern 

 Ornithology of India, and not care to wait for Messrs. Blauford and 

 Oates's very doubtful next issue. 



Kolaba, May 1890. W. F. SINCLAIR. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



SECOND NOTE ON LOCUSTS IN INDIA. 



In November last a short preliminary note on locusts in India was issued with a 

 view to showing briefly what was known on the subject, and indicating the points 

 to which attention should be directed during the locust invasion which had then 

 commenced in North- West India. In response to this appeal a considerable 

 amount of information has reached the Indian Museum for incorporation in the 

 general detailed report which is in progress. The materials, however, for anything 

 like a complete account are still very deficient, and as there seems every probabi- 

 lity of the locust invasion continuing through another season, this second note has 

 been written with a view of indicating what has already been ascertained, and 

 hence of showing the points on which further information is desired. 



The locusts have now spread themselves over Sind, Rajputana, the Punjab, 

 North-West Provinces and Oudh, besides penetrating sporadically into Guzerat, 

 Ahmedahad, Baroda, Kandesh, and parts of Central India, and appearing in the 

 Kistna district of the Madras Presidency. They have done a considerable 

 amount of injury to standing crops, especially in Rajputana and Sind. Specimens 

 have been forwarded (*) to the Indian Museum, from Karachi, Marwar, Jeypore, 

 Ajmere, Merwara Mooltan, Naini Tal, Rawalpindi, Kistna, Etawah, Muzaffargarh, 

 Lahore, and Bahraich ; they all prove to belong to the species Acridium peregri- 

 num, (f) which is said to range throughout all the dry country extending from Algeria 



(*) Through the kindness of Mr. W". 0. Cumming, Surgeon-Major Hendley, Colonel 

 G. H. Trevor, Mr. C. F. Elliot, Dr. William King, the Deputy Commissioner, Rawal- 

 pindi, the Superintendent of the Government Central Museum, Madras, the Collector 

 of Etawah, the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Punjab, the Superintendent, 

 (?) School of Art, Lahore, and the Deputy Commissioner of Bahraich, respectively. 



(t) To prevent the possibility of error in the determination of the species, 

 specimens have been submitted to the two well known Entomologists, Dr. Henri de 

 Saussure and Mr. W. F. Kirby ; these two gentlemen have most kindly examined 

 them and agree in considering that they belong to the species Acridium per egrinum. 



