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slight injury. The following is an extract from a report, dated 14th July, 1883, 
by Mr. W. H. Grimley on the subject :— 
“The subdivisional officer of Gobindpore, in the district of Manbhum, reports that, 
ic June, 1881, a swarm of locusts visited the subdivision, extending over an area about 
ten by five miles, and about a quarter of a mile high. They are said to have emerged 
partly from the Lagoo Pahar, and partly from the Faresnath hill,in the Hazaribagh 
District. Considerable numbers alighted on the young dhan seedlings, Indian-corn and 
gondlee, which has just sprouted, and destroyed them. Much damage is said to have 
been caused by the insects, but they did not stay for more than four or five hours.” 
The insects were “ about four inches long with heads and wings of a red colour. A 
large number were destroyed by the people, and some were eaten up by the kites and 
crows, also by low--caste aborigines, They are said to possess the favour of shrimps oF 
lobsters.” : 
Locusts In Mapras. 
Both in 1889 and 1890 flights of Acridium peregrinum from North-Western 
India penetrated into the Madras. Presidency, and did slight damage over 
considerable areas ; generally speaking, however, the locusts, which occasionally 
prove destructive to crops in Madras, are of more local origin. There does 
not appear to be any one species -which is invariably complamed of, but in 
years of drought numerous species, which are ordinarily present in smali 
numbers, multiply so as to injure the crops, some of them, however, being 
much more destructive than others. An account of what bas been ascertained 
about the flights of Acridiwm peregrinum, which penetrated into the Madras 
Presidency in 1889 and 1890, has been given in the report on that species. 
The following is a summary of what is known of the other species of locusts 
that have proved injurious in the Madras Presidency :— 
In 1866, a: year of scarcity, locusts appeared in one of the villages of 
the Chingleput District, in the Madras Presidency, and did some damage 
(Mr, W. R. Robertson’s Report, dated 23rd April, 1883). No information 
has been obtained as to the identity of this insect. 
~ In 1878, the last year of the great South Indian famine, locusts imvaded the 
whole of the Madras Presidency, not generally doing a great amount of injury, 
though in some cases the injury was sufficient seriously to increase the distress 
caused by the famine. The young locusts began to appear in January, and 
were found in great numbers in different districts from that date on till 
September and October, the earlier swarms being found in the west and south 
of the Presidency, and the latter ones in the north and east. The winged 
locusts were first observed in the end of March and beginning of April in the 
south-west (Wynaad and Nilgiris), and they afterwards spread over the 
Presidency to the east and north, not finally disappearing in the north-east 
until about November and December. They were supposed, at the time, 
to have originated locally in hills and waste lands in different parts of the 
Presidency. The evidence, however, seems rather to point to the locusts 
