No. 4.] Notes on Insect pests from the Entomological Section. 208 



head which was ripe and attacked by locusts presents the appearance of having 

 passed through the threshing floor,' and hardly a grain hasibeen left'; luckily one 

 of the largest swarms missed the cultivated fields and rested for the night in the 

 jungle near Sukhakheri where the damage to the trees was of little moment. 



" In the Hoshangabad tahsil the flights of locusts appeared later than in 

 Sohagpur, and on examination of the dates and places shows, that the swarm 

 was moving East to West. The principal swarms were on the 31st October and 

 the ist and 2nd November. 



" The damage done in the day time here also was comparatively small, but two 

 villages suffered severely from the locusts on the night of the 31st October, viz>, 



Jhalsar and Satwasa, Taradonda Sankhera, Itarsi, Goar 



and Sona Saoni also suffered considerably. 



" The Seoni tahsil appears to have escaped almost entirely, the only village 

 affected was Chapragrahan in which the damage was trifling and the people 

 did not even complain about it when I visited it yesterday, though they made 

 every imaginable excuse to show how difficult it was to pay rent this year. 



" In the Harda tahsil also the damage done was comparatively small and no 

 proposals for suspension of revenue are required. 



*' Omitting all villages where the crops have turned out more than 80-8-0 in 

 all fields, I submit a statement showing the area affected in each village, the total 

 anna value of the produce and the estimate of the crop in the field which has 

 suffered most : — , 



Tahsil. 



Sohagpur 



Hoshangabad 



Name of village. 



Malkajra 



Tantra . 



Purena . 



Semkhera 



Khera 



Gadroli . 



Budhni * 



Swula Khd. 



Kanthi . 



Mathni . 



Dhandya 



Mundyakhera 



Ranigohan 



Mohwakhera 



Jolsar 



Satwasa Mahal 



Tararonda 



Sankhera 



Itarsi 



No. 1 



Area 

 affected. 



Acres. 



34871 

 225-38 

 367-23 

 248-00 

 193-24 

 316-27 

 352-10 

 157-88 



345-51 

 248-42 

 221-04 



372-73 



339-60 



133-60 



403-18 



322-07 



99-46 



58-16 



59*98 



Anna 

 value of 

 produce. 



Acres, 



2,778*22 

 I,5i9'68 

 2,712-76 

 1,65400 

 1,489-92 

 2,38i"i6 



2,414-35 

 919-01 



2,452-85 

 2,480-72 

 1,735-60 

 3.372 

 3»53i 

 1,137 

 1,285 

 2,360 



397 

 232 



423'54- 



Anna esti« 

 mate of 

 crop in 



worst field. 



R. a, p, 



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 040 

 070 



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