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LOCUSTS, HOPPERS, SURFACE BEETLES, ETC, 



head and flat antennae. It is green or coloured in a beautiful combina- 

 tion of browns which make up a general ' dry grass colour/ There are 



FIG. 252. 

 The Snouted Grasshopper. 



a large number of smaller forms common in the plains and still more in 

 the hills. None can be reckoned to be specific pests of special crops. 



The principal safeguard against grasshoppers is clean cultivation; 

 fallow lands should not bear a crop of weeds and waste lands should 

 grow good grass. Waste strips between fields are a constant danger 

 unless fed down or planted with one variety of grass. "When grass- 

 hoppers appear in numbers in crops, an attempt should be made to trace 

 them to their breeding place, which is probably waste land near by, 



Locusts. 



Two species of ' grasshopper' come within our definition of 

 locusts, that is, grasshoppers that form swarms and migrate. These 



FIG. 253. 

 The Migratory Locust. 



are the Migratory or North- West Locust 1 and the Bombay Locust. 8 



1 $6. dcridium peregrinum. Oliv. (Acridiidse.) | a 46. Acridium succinctum. L. (Acridiidae.) 



