No. 6. ] -^ Conspectus of Insects. \'^\ 



which nip off young- ehir {Fimis longifolia) plants in the North- West 

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

 damage in Ganjam in 1890. 



2 1 6. Epacromia dorsalis Thunb, — Reported as attacking- young- kharif 

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

 Ganjam. 



217. Foecilocem phta Fabv. — Reported as injuring- young- crops in 

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



218. Vcecilocera hierogli/phica Klug-. — Eeported as attacking- sug-ar- 

 eaue {SaccJiarum officinarum) in Cawnpore, where, like other Acrididse, it 

 was known as bkunga or aukphnttn. 



219. Phvmafaus fnmctatus Fabr. — Said to attack crops of all kindg 

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

 bushes (Nietner). 



220. Heteropternis &p, — Reported as destructive to young kharif 

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

 khapedi. 



221. HiEROGLYPHUS FUECiFKR Sauss. — 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. Young paddy 

 {Oryza sativa) and maize [Zea Ma/js) were specially noticed amongst the 

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

 reported in Ganjam in 1890. 



222. Trijxalis turrita Linn. — Reported amongst other Acrididse 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 amongst other Acri- 

 didse in connection with the damage done by so-called locusts in Ganjam 

 in 3891. 



224. Mecopodii sp. — Reported amongst other Acrididas in connection 

 with the Madras locust invasion of 1878. 



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

 paddy {Oryza sativ(i)^\\(k small millet [Panicum miliare) in the Central 

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

 Ganjam in 1891. A species of Euprepocnemis also has been forwarded with 

 other Acrididse as attacking paddy {Oryza sativa) in Howrah ; while an 

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

 1878. 



226. Undetermined Acridida 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 



