2Jo. 5.] Miscellaneous Notes. lb 



cumbre crops so-wn, though the same would be appreciable i£ they increase in numbers 

 and continue. In Imimangalum Taluk, the locusts that appeared are said to be 

 ordinary ones, about an inch in length and to have sprung up all at once in swarms 

 in some of the villages and commenced to damage the crops by devouring the tender 

 green leaves. They gradually disappeai-ed with subsequent rain and wind and no 

 material damage has been done to the crops. From the report of the Deputy Col- 

 lector, Melur, it appears that the locusts had hidden themselves in the clefts or open- 

 ings in the fields, daring the late rain and wind, and to have re-appeared afterwards, 

 and that the crops damaged by them have survived after their gradual disappearance. 

 In Pemjakulam Taluk the locusts are reported to have appeared in some villages and 

 damaged chohim and ragi crops on dry lands and to be gradually disappearing. In 

 Manamadura Taluk of the Sivagunga Zemindari, the insects are said to have destroy- 

 ed about 150 (illegible ?) of land cultivated with ragi crops and to have disappeared with 

 the rains. One particular feature is, that these locusts do not commit any damage 

 to the crops that have once escaped their attack. The insects have not appeared in 

 any other parts of the district. These locusts are probably only grasshoppers ; they 

 rise under your horse's feet by hundreds in grass of tank beds." 



The first set of specimens, forwarded through the Central Museum, 

 Me.dras, in September from the Madura District, in counection with the 

 above, comprised only larvse in poor preservation of a species of Acrididsa 

 thought to belong to the genus Epacromia. Subsequent consignment 

 comprised the following as determined in the Indian Museum collection. 

 From the Periakulam Taluk, Madura District : — 



(a) Acrida turrit a, Linn., large variety, thirty specimens. 



(5) Acrida turrita, Linn., small variety, ten specimens. 



(<?) Ox9/a velox, Burm.^ twenty-three specimens. 



(f/) Atractomorpha crenulala, Fabr., fourteen specimens. 



[e) Buprepocnemis^ sp., thirteen specimens. 



(/") Epacromia ? tricoloripes, Burm., five specimens. 



( g) IBachytyltis cinerascens, Fabr,, two specimens. 



{h) Catantops itidicus, Sauss., two specimens. 



[k) Acridittm ccriiffinosum, Burm., one specimen. 



From the Tirumungalum Taluk, Madura District : — 



{a) Crvtogonus trachypterus^ Blanch., one hundred and six spe- 

 cimens. 

 {V) Q^daliis marmoratus, Linn,, four specimens, 

 (c) Catantoi^s indicus, Sauss., four specimens. 



In August 1893 the following Acrididse were forwarded from Kirkee, 



. .1., . T, Poona, by Mr. J. Mollison with the inform- 



Acrididse m roona. . ' •' 



ation that they had been doing a good 

 deal of damage in a plot of wal {BolicJios lahlah). The names of the 

 species are given as determined in the Indian Museum collection :— 



[a] Enprepocnemis, sp., five specimens. 



[b) Tryxalis turrita, Linn., one specimen. 



(<?) Acridium artiginosunij Burm., one specimen. 



