1898.] LOCUSTS AND ORCHARD PESTS 229 



One of the three animals was reported to appear to suffer 

 from colic; another recovered when bran was substituted 

 for the locust-infested hay. The third I should con- 

 jecture was very ill when I heard. But as I know nothing 

 of veterinary matters, I thought it was but right to send 

 the notes on, with a kind of apology. The locusts are of the 

 South American migratory kind Schistocerca paranensis. 

 Pretty creatures even all flattened out. My correspondent 

 sent me about 120 of them. 



July 20, 1898. 



I am working now on what I hope to bring out in 

 the autumn as a good thick volume, called, " Handbook 



Locust with wings spread : tip of male abdomen to the right, and of 

 female abdomen to the left. (After Conil, but reduced .) 



FIG. 55. SOUTH AMERICAN MIGRATORY LOCUST, SCHISTOCERCA 

 PARENENSIS (MALE}. 



From Lawrence Bruner's Locust Investigation Commission Report, 

 Buenos Aires. 



of Insects Injurious to Orchard and Bush Fruits, with 

 means of Prevention and Remedy/' very fully illustrated. 

 I am trying to include all the attacks of any real impor- 

 tance of which observations have been sent to me in the 

 past twenty-one years, and though I give these from 

 British observations to a great extent, I am trying to bring 

 them all up to date. I hope you approve of the idea. Our 



