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Indian Museum Notes. 



[Vol. V. 



The following are reports (with specimens) which have been for- 

 warded to the Indian Museum, regarding the appearance of the locust 

 {Acridium peregrtnum, Oliv.) during 1897-98 : — 



(1) From the Officiating Collector of Pabna, through the Director 

 of the Department of Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal, dated 

 29th January 1898. 



" I have to report that a large swarm of locusts made its appearance on the 

 9th instant on the west bank of Jamuna in the jurisdiction of outpost Chauhalij 

 Thana Shazadpur, Sub-division Sirajganj of this district. 



"The swarm was estimated by my Kanungo who saw it to be two miles long 

 and came from a north-westerly direction. The locusts settled on mango trees 

 and on the young china, barley and pulse crops. They did not attack the hemp 

 crop. 



" Three specimens of the locust are sent . . ." 



(2) From the Collector of the Panch Mahals, through the Survey 

 Commissioner and Director, Land Records and Agriculture, Bombay, 

 dated 17th March 1898. 



w Forward herewith some samples of locusts sent to this office by the Mamlat- 

 dar of Godhra, who reports that a flight of locusts passed over Mehlol in Godhra 

 Taluka on 5th February. The locusts appeared to have arrived from the south 

 of Mehlol and passed on towards the north, and no damage is reported to have 

 been caused by them." 



(3) From the Deputy Commissioner, Upper Sind Frontier, through 

 the Survey Commissioner and Director, Land Records and Agriculture, 

 Bombay. 



" I have the honour to inform you of the appearance of locusts in three talukas 

 of this district and to give the necessary information in the subjoined form : — 



Taluka. 



Date of appearance. 



Extent to which 



damage was caused 



by locusts. 



Remarks. 



Jacobabad 

 Thai 

 Kashmor • 



17th and 29th Sep- 

 tember 1898. 



14th, 17th, and 18th 

 September 1S98. 



14th and 15th Septem- 

 ber 1898. 



Nil, 



Standing Bajri crops 

 in 10 acres of land in 

 Det Jamal. 



Damage caused in- 

 significant. 



Came in flights from the 

 east and passed on to the 

 west. 



Came from the north-east- 

 erly direction and went to 

 the west. 



Came in flights from the 

 north and went towards 

 the south. 



The specimens sent by the Mtikhtiarkars of Thul and Kashmor Talukas are 

 forwarded." 



