﻿LOCUSTS 
  IN 
  INDIA 
  AND 
  AUSTRALIA. 
  47 
  

  

  swarm 
  of 
  locusts, 
  which 
  for 
  two 
  months 
  have 
  been 
  scattered 
  over 
  Guz- 
  

   urate, 
  flew 
  in 
  a 
  cloud 
  over 
  Baroda 
  on 
  the 
  23d 
  of 
  December, 
  and 
  occu- 
  

   pied 
  a 
  space 
  of 
  ten 
  English 
  miles 
  in 
  reaching 
  their 
  destination. 
  

  

  G. 
  Playfair 
  96 
  gives 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  locusts 
  in 
  the 
  

   Doab. 
  

  

  Salt 
  97 
  states 
  that 
  while 
  he 
  resided 
  at 
  Bombay 
  numbers 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   species 
  of 
  locust 
  (as 
  that 
  he 
  saw 
  at 
  Amphila, 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  Abyssinia) 
  

   were 
  sent 
  down 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Duncan 
  from 
  the 
  upper 
  country 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  

   of 
  pointing 
  out 
  the 
  insect 
  which 
  had 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  laid 
  waste 
  several 
  ex 
  

   tensive 
  tracts 
  of 
  land 
  in 
  the 
  interior. 
  He 
  describes 
  and 
  figures 
  the 
  spe 
  

   cies, 
  showing 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  Acridium 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  A. 
  peregrinum 
  

   In 
  an 
  article 
  from 
  the 
  South 
  Australian 
  Register, 
  of 
  Adelaide, 
  Australia, 
  

   December 
  19, 
  1871, 
  January 
  2, 
  1872, 
  98 
  in 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  locust 
  visita 
  

   tion 
  of 
  that 
  region 
  the 
  following 
  statement 
  incidentally 
  occurs 
  : 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Home 
  related 
  some 
  of 
  his 
  experiences 
  concerning 
  locusts 
  in 
  India, 
  the 
  species 
  

   being 
  probably 
  Acridium 
  peregrinum. 
  They 
  were 
  in 
  such 
  numbers 
  that 
  they 
  could 
  be 
  

   collected 
  by 
  tons, 
  and 
  they 
  were 
  fed 
  upon 
  by 
  almost 
  every 
  description 
  of 
  animal. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  article 
  last 
  quoted 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  full 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  locust 
  ravages 
  in 
  

   Australia 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  1871. 
  From 
  this 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  they 
  

   take 
  their 
  origin 
  in 
  the 
  north 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  and 
  move 
  southward. 
  

   One 
  correspondent 
  quoted 
  states 
  that 
  the 
  locusts 
  appear 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   every 
  year 
  in 
  some 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  colony, 
  though 
  seldom 
  so 
  numerous 
  as 
  at 
  

   this 
  time. 
  There 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  but 
  one 
  migratory 
  species, 
  briefly 
  de- 
  

   scribed 
  as 
  u 
  female 
  dirty-brown, 
  and 
  male 
  bright 
  yellow." 
  They 
  usually 
  

   come 
  in 
  November 
  and 
  December, 
  seldom 
  remaining 
  after 
  the 
  1st 
  of 
  

   January. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  17th 
  of 
  December, 
  about 
  sundown, 
  there 
  was 
  an 
  immense 
  flight 
  at 
  Glendg 
  

   from 
  the 
  seaward. 
  They 
  were 
  in 
  countless 
  myriads, 
  and 
  flying 
  about 
  nine 
  or 
  ten 
  feet 
  

   high. 
  They 
  had 
  every 
  appearance 
  of 
  having 
  crossed 
  the 
  Gulf; 
  at 
  least 
  they 
  were 
  in 
  

   full 
  force 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  jetty, 
  and 
  appeared 
  to 
  be 
  making 
  their 
  way 
  against 
  the 
  

   wind 
  towards 
  the 
  hills. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  Glendg 
  fishermen 
  states 
  that 
  he 
  has, 
  on 
  previous 
  

   occasions, 
  seen 
  locusts 
  crossing 
  the 
  Gulf, 
  and 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  while 
  out 
  at 
  sea 
  found 
  his 
  

   boat 
  covered 
  with 
  them. 
  A 
  few 
  days 
  afterwards 
  (December 
  20) 
  the 
  locusts 
  arrived 
  in 
  

   force 
  at 
  Glendg, 
  traveling 
  rapidly 
  southward. 
  The 
  right 
  wing 
  of 
  the 
  army 
  rested 
  on 
  

   the 
  coast 
  line, 
  but 
  did 
  not 
  go 
  further 
  westward 
  than 
  the 
  green 
  herbage 
  of 
  the 
  sand 
  

   hills. 
  On 
  the 
  bare 
  sands 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  stragglers 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  seen, 
  and 
  scarcely 
  any 
  within 
  

   three 
  or 
  four 
  yards 
  of 
  the 
  water. 
  

  

  Another 
  severe 
  visitation 
  to 
  this 
  section 
  of 
  Australia 
  in 
  1824 
  is 
  also 
  

   mentioned. 
  

  

  It 
  appears 
  that 
  New 
  Zealand 
  also 
  occasionally 
  suffers 
  from 
  locusts, 
  

   but 
  we 
  have 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  find 
  any 
  account 
  of 
  their 
  movements 
  or 
  

   ravages 
  in 
  these 
  islands. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  France 
  and 
  Madagascar 
  swarms 
  of 
  locusts 
  appear, 
  

   which 
  darken 
  the 
  sun. 
  99 
  

  

  96 
  Trans. 
  Med. 
  and 
  Phys. 
  Soc. 
  Calcutta, 
  i, 
  1825, 
  p. 
  103. 
  

  

  97 
  Voyage 
  to 
  Abyssinia 
  in 
  1808 
  and 
  1810, 
  App. 
  M. 
  

  

  98 
  Quoted 
  in 
  Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Lond., 
  1872, 
  xii. 
  

  

  "Bory 
  do 
  St. 
  Vincent, 
  " 
  Voyage 
  a 
  l'Be 
  de 
  Bourbon, 
  "i, 
  226.— 
  Mandelslo, 
  Morgenlandische 
  Reise, 
  1658. 
  

   ii, 
  171.— 
  Bitter. 
  

  

  