CHAPTER XVII. 



LOCUSTS, GRASSHOPPERS, SURFACE BEETLES, AND 

 BURROWING INSECTS. 



LOCUSTS are probably the most familiar pesfcs discussed in this 

 volume, and are here treated with the grasshoppers and other orthop- 

 terous insects to which they are allied. Locusts do no great aggregate harm 

 compared with the attention they attract, though the sight of fields 

 stripped by a locust swarm is very impressive. If money values could 

 be ascertained, any one of the major pests probably does more aggregate 

 damage, working constantly, scattered over all India, but not laying 

 waste a tract in the thorough manner of the locust. 



FIG. 248. 

 A Common Grasshopper. 



