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which nip off young' ehir (Tinus iongifoUa) plants in the North- West 

 Provinces, and also amongst the so-called locusts which did some 

 damage in Ganjam in 1S90. 



216. Epacromia dorsalis'^\\\va}o. — Reported as attacking vouno-kharif 

 crops in the Upper Sind Frontier district ; also reported as injurious in 

 Ganjam. 



217. Poscilocera picta Fiibr. — Reported as injaring young crops in 

 Jhalawad Prant, Kathiawar, where it was said to be known as khapedi. 



218. Ffscilocera hierogh/phica Klug. — Reported as attacking' sug'ar- 

 cane [SaccJiarnm officinariim) in Cuwnpore, where, like other Acrididffi it 

 was known as bhunga or aukphutta. 



219. Phymatceus punctatus Y&hv. — Said to attack crops of all kinds 

 in Ceylon, occasionally doing some damage to coffee {Coffea arahica) 

 bushes (Nietner). 



220. Heteropternis sp. — Reported as destructive to youno' kharif 

 crops in the Upper Sind Frontier district, where it was known a 

 k /taped i.. 



221. HiEROGLYPHUS FUECIFER Sausf=. — Reported as destructive to crops 

 in the Rajpipla state, and in the Panch Mahals, Broach, and Thana 

 districts in the Bombay presidency ; also in the Sambalpur district in the 

 Central Provinces, and in the Kolhapur state, Bombay. Youncr paddy 

 {Oryza sativa) and maize [Zea Ala/js) were specially noticed amoncst the 

 crops attacked. It was also one of the so-called locusts which were 

 reported in Ganjam in 1890. 



222. TryxaUs ttirrita Linn, — Reported amongst otlier Acrididee in 

 connection with the Madras locust invasion of 1878, also with the injury 

 done by so-called locusts in Ganjam both in 1890 and 1891. 



223. Atractomorpka crenulata Fabr. — Reported amouo-st other Aeri- 

 didse in connection with the dam-age done by so-called locusts in Ganiam 

 in 1891. 



224. Mecopoda sp. — Reported amongst other Acrididaj in connection 

 with the Madras locust invasion of 1878. 



225. Euprepocnemis bramina Sauss.— Reported as destructive to young 

 paddy {Oryza sativa)a.n(\. smaW mWht [Panic um miliar e) in the Ceutrri 

 Provinces; also reported as one of the Acrididse which proved injurious in 

 Ganjam in 1891. A species of Euprepocnemis a\so has been forwarded with 

 other Acrididffi as attacking paddy {Ori/za sativa) in Howrali ; while au 

 allied insect was reported as concerned in the Madras locust invasion of 

 1878. 



226. Undetermined Acrididee have been reported as follows : 



(1) a locust known as the kakotiphoring, or paper grasshopper 

 reported to have done a good deal of damage to crops in the 

 Nowgong district, Assam, in 1879; it has been suggested 



