^0, 1. ] M'lscellanenun Notes. 29 



Madras locust invasion of 1S78, l)ut it miiy be worth noticing that in 

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

 the danijige that was done iu 1878, Acridium ceriKjinosum was represented 

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

 been the insect reft-rred 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 



whieii had lately appeared iu the ('liieacole 

 Acndklaj 111 Gangam. m i i p i /^^ • /->i n i m, 



iiiluk of the Lranjam Lollectorate. Tiie spe- 

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

 hopj)ers. The following- is a list of them : 



(I) Iheivglyphus furcijer Sauss. (seven specimens of which fivn 

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

 Acrida turrita Linn, (two mature specimens), (4) Euprepocnemisbramina 

 Sauss. (two mature specimens), (o) Atractomurpha crenidata Fabr. (one 

 mature specimen),' (6) Epacromia, dorsalis'Wiwx^. (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 tliem are known to 

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

 migratory locusts. 



In April 1891 a number of Acrididee collected in Meywar were 



forwarded to the Museum, throuyh the Gov- 

 Aei-ididaG in Meywar. j. i- t j- r ^i * *. ^ i.i 



ernment ot India, trom the Ag-ent to the 



Governor-General in Rajputana. They were thoug-ht 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 JSaussure, and have been 

 identified as follows : ten specimens of Catatitops indicus Sauss,, four 

 specimens of ChrotocjoHUs tfachi^pterus Blanch , oue specimen Epacromia 

 iorsalis Thunb., and three specimens doubtfully identitied as Trilopldia 

 innulata Thunb. 



A number of specimens of the hirge green Acridid Pcecilucera picla 



Fabr, were forwarded to the Indian Museum 

 Aci-idultc in Godavari. . ^ , , ^r,n^ a 4-\ r> A • "n" «. • 4^ 



m October 1p91 from the Godavari JJistrict. 

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



