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(5) From the Baluchistan Agency. 



Extract from the Baluchistan Agency diary for the week ending 



the j 1 st May 1898. 



The Political Agent in Southern Baluchistan reports in his diary for the week 

 ending 24th May that locusts visited Kauraj in Las Bela on the 3rd idem and 

 damaged the jowari crops at that place. 



Extract from diary of the Baluchistan Agency for the week ending 



the 8th July 1898. 



In his diary for the week ending 30th June 1898, the Political Agent, South- 

 Eastern Baluchistan, reports that large swarms of locusts visited the neighbour- 

 hood of Qir Tyara on the 17th idem, and that after destroying the crops ther e 

 they passed on in the direction of Sheh. On the 19th another swarm was seen 

 at Bela. Considerable damage is also reported to have been done to the jowar 

 and moong crops in the District of Kaurach. 



Extract from the diary of the Baluchistan Agency for the week 

 ending 24th September 1898. 



The Political Agent reports that locusts appeared at Fort Sandeman and 

 Loralai during the first week of September. Some damage has been done to the 

 millet and vegetable crops. 



Extract from diary of the Baluchistan Agency for the week ending 

 the 8th October 1898. 



Locusts are reported to have visited the Niabut of Kamraj, in the Las Bela 

 State, and to have destroyed the moong crops. 



Extract from diary of the Baluchistan Agency for the week ending 

 the 16th October 1898. 



The Extra-Assistant Commissioner, Lower Zhob, reports that locusts appeared 

 at the village of Chhap in the Musakhel Tahsil on the nth September 1898, and 

 destroyed the moong and millet crops to some extent. 



V. INSECTS INFESTING FRUIT TREES. 



Mango tree pests. 



Lxmacodid moth. — In August 1898, the Assistant Superintendent 

 of the Poona Farm reported and forwarded specimens to the Museum 

 of a caterpillar that were eating off all the leaves of the mango trees 

 in the Poona Farm Garden. 



