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its colours were brilliant blue, green and yellow. Similar specimens were 

 forwarded in the same month by the Director of Land Records and 

 Agriculture, Bombay, from the Assistant Political Agent, Sorath Prant. 

 The insect has previously been sent to the Indian Museum as injuring 

 young crops in Kathiawar but little is known about it. The woodcut 

 shows the insect natural size. 



In October 1893 specimens of the Aeridid Oxj/a velo:r), Burm., as 



^ 7 T3 determined in the Indian Museum collec- 



Oxya velox, l>urm. 



tion, were forwarded by the Deputy Commis- 

 sioner, Peshawar, with the information that the insect had been preva- 

 lent both in the Peshawar District and also in the neighbouring bill 

 tracts. It was reported as having done extensive damage to crops, and 

 especially to young cotton and maize as they appeared above the ground, 



Specimens of insects reported as locusts in the Dera Ismail Khan 



„ . , ,. mi 1 District, Puniab, were forwarded in October 



Ejiacromia dorsalis,'Y\iM.VLb. lonn u\li t/ l n ■ ■ rvu 



1892 by the Deputy Commissioner. Iney 



proved to belong to the species Epacromia dorsalis, Thunb., as determined 



in the Indian Museum collection. The species has previously been 



reported as attacking crops both in the Upper Sind Frontier District and 



in Ganjam,so no doubt occurs throughout India. 



The fisfure shows the insect natural size. 



