MIGRATORY LOCUST. 53 
Melon, and similar plants ;* and as the climate here might allow of 
its presence, at least as an infestation of plants under glass, a few 
words of description may be of service. 
LOCUSTS. 
Migratory Locust of South America.  Acridium (Schistocerca) 
paranense, Burm. 
AcRIDIUM (SCHISTOCERCA) AMERICANUM, after Riley, North American Migratory 
Locust (see p. 54 for likeness to South American species). 
On May 28th the following note was sent me by Mr. Geo. Barton, 
manager to Mr. John Cox, cowkeeper, &c., of 112, 114, and 116, Harris 
Street, Camberwell, S.H.:—‘‘ The enclosed specimens are arriving in 
bales of hay from South America ; would you be so kind as to tell me 
what they are?” 
On examination, the insects proved to be specimens of the “ Migra- 
tory Locust’’ of South America, scientifically Acridiwn (Schistocerca) 
paranense, Burmeister, the same species of which specimens were sent 
to me in 1893 from a Liverpool firm, with the enquiry whether the 
insects, which were found in quantity averaging one Locust to a pound 
of the Alfalfa (Lucerne) hay which was then (February 2nd) being 
landed from Buenos Ayres, were injurious to horses or cattle if con- 
sumed in fodder. 
I was unable to offer any information on this point, and advised 
procuring a proper veterinary opinion, as, on the face of the thing, it 
seemed very possible that the hard, horny, and spiny shanks of the 
hind legs of the Locusts might cause mischief; but I did not hear of 
illness either in this case or in the case of specimens of the same kind 
* ¢Hconomic Entomology,’ by John B. Smith, Entomologist o the New Jersey 
State Board of Agriculture, p. 175. Philadelphia, 1896, 
