48 LOCUSTS. 



and also by the ovipositor not being exserted, the extremity of the tail 

 not being prolonged into a long egg-laying apparatus. The size is very 

 variable, from that of the little Grasshoppers, which we are well 

 acquainted with here, to from two to about three inches in length from 

 head to tip of wings when at rest in the case of some of the larger 

 Locusts of the western and eastern world. 



The first specimeu I received ia the past season was sent me on 

 the 31st of January, from Harlington, Middlesex, by Mr. Eobert 

 Newman, with the remarks : — " I have just had handed to me a species of 

 Grasshopper, which I send to you by this post. The same was found 

 in a white Brocoli bought in the London market, and which was sent 

 there from some foreign district. I shall be glad if you will tell me 

 what it is, and whether there is any reason to fear danger from the 

 importation of the same." 



On examination of the specimen, it seemed to me that it was most 

 likely it had been imported from the south of Europe, and on enquiry I 

 found many Brocoli had then been lately imported from Spain. 



A few days after receipt of the above specimen, another Locust of 

 the same species, though rather larger and somewhat differing in 

 marking, was forwarded to me by favour of Messrs. West, Newman & 

 Co., 54, Hatton Garden, London, E.G., with the following note: — 

 "This morning a lad named Fursdon, kitchen-boy at Spiers and Pond's 

 Aldersgate Street Hotel, brought the Locust sent herewith, which he 

 had found among some ' greens ' sent in from market. I could not 

 extract any information as to the origin of the greens. It struck me 

 that here might be the importation of a serious injurious insect attack, 

 and so send it off to you." — (T. P. N.) 



Both of the above specimens were alive, and apparently in good 

 health. The length of the specimen figured (p. 47) was two inches or 

 slightly less in the body ; two and three-eighth inches from head to tip 

 of upper wings when at rest ; general colour reddish mottled with 

 greyish, yellowish red mark at the hinder part of the head, and eyes 

 with alternate fine longitudinal lines of black and yellowish, these 

 upwards of fourteen in number. The narrow parchment-like, and 

 somewhat transparent, upper wings dark grey, mottled with many 

 darker grey spots, these smaller along the fore edge. The posterior 

 legs with three dark blotches along the upper part of the thigh 

 (femur), and the shanks [tibia) with white spines black at the tip. 

 The above short description of the general appearance of these 

 Locusts, together with the figure at p. 47, will perhaps be sufficient 

 for agricultural use ; those who desire full technical details will find 

 them excellently given in the work noted below.* 



* ' Sinopsis de los Ortopteros de Espana y Portugal,' par Ignacio Bolivar, 

 Madrid, pp. 88, 89. 



