70 Indian Museum f^otes. [Yol. IlL 



labri, Dambfei, Alamalad, Chil-Eahamatabad and Jagirabad. Prom report Ho. 26651j- 

 dated the 2nd instant, sent by the Mnkhtiarkar of Tbul direct to your office, also, it 

 appears that a small swarm of locusts appeared in his taluka, on the 1st instant, and 

 did some damage to the crops on the northern side of the Desert Canal for about two 

 hours and then went away into the Kelat territory." 



Further specimens of the same species were forwarded to the Museum 

 in October 1892 by tbe Deputy Commissionei" of Rawalpindi who 

 referred to tliem in his letter, dated 22nd October 1892, as having " now '^ 

 visited the district. 



The next reference to the insect was in the form of specimens for- 

 warded to the Museum from an Amballa Tahsildar with the information 

 that they had passed through five or six villages in that neighbourhood 

 on the 24th November 1892 but had doue no damage. Similar speci- 

 mens were also forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of Amballa on 

 the 12th January 1893. 



From Jbang also specimens were forwarded by the Deputy Com- 

 missioner on the 23rd January 1893 with the information that they had 

 *' been lately visiting Tahsil Shorkot in this district. ■'^ 



Specimens have also been forwarded to the Museum by the Deputy 

 Commissioner, Amritsar (forwarding letter dated 19th October 1892), by 

 the Deputy Commissioner, Dera Ghazi Khan (forwarding letter dated 2nd 

 November 1892), by the Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon (forwarding 

 letter dated 28th November 1892), and by the Director of Land Records 

 and Agriculture, Punjab, from the Dera Ismail Khan district (forward- 

 ing letter dated 26th June 1893). In these cases, however, the dates 

 of appearance have not been furnished. 



In the autumn of 1892 the Acridid H.ieroglyfhus furcifer^ Sauss., as 



nieroglypTius furci- determined in the Indian Museum collection, was 



fer, Sauss. prevalent in both the Bombay, Decean and in the 



Madras Presidency, It seems to have occasioned a good deal of damage 



of a local nature to crops. 



In the Poena district the insect was first noticed on the 23rd August 

 about which time the larvse are said to have hatched out from eggs 

 laid in the fields. The damage to jowari in one village is reported to 

 have been considerable, but information has not been received as to the 

 extent of the area aflFected. The only measure attempted for dealing 

 with the pest seems to have been that of catching and killing the insects 



