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7. From the Professor of Agriculture, Baroda College, were re- 

 ceived specimens of an insect attacking cotton bolls in the College 

 Farm. 



This insect belongs to the species Oxycarens lugubris, Mostch> 

 It has previously been reported both from the Madras Presidency and 

 Ceylon in connection with cotton. 



IV.— LOCUSTS. 



Acridium succinctum, Linn. — Specimens, taken from the flights of 

 locusts that had appeared in the Bombay Presidency during the latter 

 end of the year 1898, as doing damage to crops, were forwarded 

 to the Indian Museum through the Survey Commissioner and Director, 

 Land Records and Agriculture, Bombay. 



These insects proved to be the same as Acridium succinctum 

 Linn, the locust which has previously been recorded as attacking 

 crops in several parts of India. Accounts of it may be found in Indian 

 Museum Notes, Vol. II, pp. 10, 28, 100, no, and 169; Vol. Ill, p. 32. 



The following reports have been furnished by the Survey Commis- 

 sioner and Director, Land Records and Agriculture, Bombay, regard- 

 ing the flights :— 



(1) " I have the honour to forward herewith a bottle containing specimens of 

 locusts for identification and remarks. They appeared on the 27th ultimo at 

 Mhaswandi, Sangamner Taluka, Ahmednagar District, and destroyed standing 

 crops. The village officers there, with the assistance of the people, are trying to 

 destroy them " (dated 9th November 1898). 



"(2) In advising despatch of a bottle containing specimens of locusts for favour 

 of identification and remarks, I have the honour to inform you that the insects 

 have appeared in about 60 hill-side villages of the Mabad Taluka of the Kolaba 

 Collectorate." 



" These insects have not appeared in large numbers and as the nagli, vari, and 

 unripe paddy crops on which they have been feeding, have now mostly been cut, 

 no great damage to these crops is feared. If, however, they continue long in the 

 district, the yield of grass and of summer crops may suffer" (dated 3rd December 

 1898). 



Acridium peregrinum, Oliv.— The migratory locust of 

 North- West India. 



