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Madras locust invasion of 1 878, but it may be worth noticing that in 

 the set of specimens that reached the Indian Museum, as responsible for 

 the damage that was done in 1878, Acridium mrvginosum was represented 

 by more specimens than any of the other species, so it may perhaps have 

 been the insect referred to by the writers of: most of the reports, 

 who seem to have noticed but one kind of insect. 



In November 1891 a number of Acrididse were forwarded as the locusts 



whic' had lately appeared in the Chicacole 

 Acrididse in Gangam. , .. 



Taluk or the Ganjam Colleetorate. I he spe- 

 cimens proved to belong to no less than six very distinct species of grass- 

 hoppers. The following is a list of them : 



(1) Ilie>oglyphus furcijer Sauss. (seven specimens of which five 

 were immature), (2) Oxya velox Burm. (two immature specimens), (3) 

 Acrida turrita Linn, (two mature specimens), (4) Euprepocnemis bramina 

 Sauss. (two mature specimens), (5) Atractomorpha crenulata Fabr. (one 

 mature specimen), (6) Epacromia, 'dorsalis Thumb, (one mature specimen). 

 These species are all likely to attack plants and may perhaps do some 

 damage to crops over restricted areas, but none of them are known to 

 occasion any such widespread injury as that which is often done by 

 migratory locusts. 



In April 1891 a number of Acrididse collected in Meywar were 



forwarded to the Museum, through the Gov- 

 Aeridida? in Meywar. , „ T ,. „ ,, . 



eminent ot India, irom the Agent to the 



Governor-General in Rajputana. They were thought to have been 

 associated with the locust invasion of Meywar, but it is more probable 

 that they were merely representatives of local species of Acrididse that 

 were to be found after the flights of the true locust (Acridium peregrinum 

 Oliv.) had passed away. The insects have been compared with the speci- 

 mens in the Museum collection named by Dr. De Saussure, and have been 

 identified as fellows : ten specimens of Cat ant ops indicus Sauss., four 

 specimens of Chrotogonus traehypterus Blanch., oue specimen Epacromia 

 iorsalis Thunb., and three specimens doubtfully identified as Trilopidia 

 inuulata Thunb. 



A number of specimens of the large green Acridid Pcecilocera picla 



Fabr. were forwarded to the Indian Museum 



Acrididse in Godavari. • rw l icnw +\ n i ■ TV *. ■ t 



in October Ic91 irom the Godavari District, 



Details of the damage done by this insect have not yet been procured. 



