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term (Entom. vi. 263, &c.), I think the great burdock (Arctium 

 majus) must be the plant intended: the leaves are very 

 similar to rhubarb. I used myself to call it " wild rhubarb." 

 — Nathaniel Hearle ; West Looe. 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological 



Society. 



Ravages of Locusts in South Australia (continued from 

 p. 272). — "On Friday, December 17th, about sundown, there 

 was an immense flight of locusts at Glenelg from the seaward. 

 They were in countless myriads, and flying about nine or ten 

 feet high. They had every appearance of having crossed the 

 Gulf; at least, they were in full force at the end of the jetty, 

 and appeared to be making their way, against the wind, 

 towards the hills. One of the Glenelg fishermen states that 

 he has on previous occasions seen locusts crossing the Gulf, 

 and that he has, while out at sea, found his boat covered 

 with them. A few days afterwards (December 20th) the 

 locusts arrived in force at Glenelg, travelling rapidly south- 

 ward. The right wing of the army rested on the coast line, 

 but did not go further westward than the green herbage of the 

 sand-hills. On the bare sands only a few stragglers were to 

 be seen, and scarcely any within three or four yards of the 

 water. Swarms alighted upon various patches of vegetation ; 

 one of couch-grass, we heard of, over which the locusts 

 settled two deep, and were killed wholesale with whips. They 

 attacked less zealously a small plantation of lucerne, the 

 flavour of which seemed hardly to their taste. Near it a 

 number of fowls collected, and seemed to be well employed 

 in picking up specimens of Natural History. Mr. George H. 

 Glover writes the following from Kersbrook on the 19lh 

 December: — 'The locusts were first seen in this neighbour- 

 hood on Friday last; they still increased in what we would 

 now call small numbers, for at about eleven o'clock yesterday 

 morning (Monday, the 18th) they began to come in clouds, or 

 rather in one continual cloud. The work of destruction was 

 then commenced in earnest. In a very short time acres and 

 acres of potatoes were cleared of their leaves; the ground, 

 grass, potatoes, and fruit-trees from the bottom to the tops 

 are literally covered with them : they are so thick that we 



