Uo. 5,] Miscellaneous I\'o(es. 69 



In December 1893 caterpillars were forwarded to the Museum from 

 the Superintendent, Government Farms, 

 wei ca erp ars. Nagpur, with the information that ihej had 



to a large extent spoilt the eafflower crop. The specimens were insuffi- 

 cient for the precise determination of the species but are likely to be the 

 larvae of one of the Noctues moths related to, but distinct from the 

 species Heliothis armigera, Hiibn. 



Tenthredi nidge larvse were forwarded in January 1893 by Mr. 

 Cabbage Tenthredinid in ^' ^' Middleton with the information that 

 Baroda. they do great damage to cabbage seedlii)gs 



and other Cruciferse cultivated in Baroda. The insects arrived alive 

 but the attempt that was made to rear them upon cabbage leaves in 

 Calcutta proved unsuccessful, so the identity of the species could not be 

 ascertained. 



The account given in these ISlotes, Vol. Ill, pp. 77 to 86, of the locust 

 Acridi-um peregrinum, invasion of 1889 — 92 brings the history of the 

 ^'^^' locust Acridium peregrinum in India up to the 



early spring of 1892. Since then the insect has been present in small 

 numbers but no appreciable damage seems to have been occasioned by it. 

 The following is the information which has reached the Indian Museum^ 

 In a report, forwarded by the Director of Land Records and Agri- 

 culture, Bombay, from the Upper Sind Frontier District the presence of 

 locusts is recorded on the 26th May 1892 in the Shahdadpur Taluka, 

 The specimens which accompanied the report were adults of the species 

 Acridium per egrinvM) Oliv., in poor preservation. 



Similar specimens were forwarded in November 1892 by the Deputy 

 Commissioner, Shahpur, with the information that they had appeared in 

 the September previous. 



The following is a report, dated 6th October 1892, by the Deputy 

 Collector, Upper Sind Frontier, forwarded by the Director of Land 

 Records and Agriculture, Bombay. It was accompanied by adult 

 specimens in poor preservation of the species Acridium peregrinum^ 

 Oliv. :— 



" I have tbc honor to submit berewitb report No. A., dated the 5th instant, to- 

 gether with specimens c£ locusts enclosed in a bottle received from the Mukhtiarkar of 

 Kashmor. 



" It would appear from the report that a large swarm of locusts has appeared in the 

 North' Western part of Taluka. Kashmor is doing damage to the Kh^rif crops in Deliss 



