Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. III. 



In June 1893 specimens were forwarded to the Museum through the 



Calcutta Agricultural and Horticultural 



Crickets in Comilla. o • j. n • i i. i. j 



iSociety or a cricket reported as causing 



serious damage to jute and rice crops in Comilla. The specimens forward- 

 ed were found to be immature, but they ate likely to belong to the species 

 Brachytrypes ackatimis, Stoll, (Family Gryllidse), as determined in the 

 Indian Museum collection. 



A mole cricket of the genus Gryllotalpa was forwarded to the Museum 



, . . ^ in September 1893 by Manor G. Gaisford 



Mole cricket m Quetta. -ii, xi • p i- i-i i ■, ■, i , 



With the information that it had proved 



destructive in potato fields in Quetta. In one case it was said that a plot 



of potatoes had been systematically sprayed every week from the time 



the plants were six inches bigh until they came into flower with London 



purple, but the crop was destroyed all the same by the insect. 



In June 1892 a number of Orthoptera were forwarded to tbe Museum 



by the Director of Laud Records and Agri- 



SM F°Er iisll-S. '"'^" ™lt»-. Bombay, from the Upper Sind fton- 



tier District. The insects were reported to 

 have been damaging young crops of juar (great millet) in the Jacobabad 

 and Shahdadpur taluks. The specimens comprised the following species 

 as determined in the Indian Museum collection. 



{a) Chrotogonus trackppterus, Blanch., three larvae. 



(Jb) Gryllodes melanocephaluSf Serv., eight adults and one 



larva, 

 (e) Epacromia^ sp., eleven adults comprising two allied forms, 



one of which is probably E. dorsalis, Thunb. ■ 



The cricket referred to in these JVoies, Vol. Ill, p. 100, as attack- 

 ing bajra, jo war, cotton, and other crops 

 Determination of Orthoptera. • ou i i -j. • i in 



^ m Shahpur, where it is known locally as 



Ihka has been kindly examined in Switzerland by Dr. Henry de Saussure, 

 who identifies it as belonging to the species Gryllodes melanocepJialus , 

 Serv. The Acridid referred to on the same page as known in Shahpur 



