LOCUSTS IN ASIA. 
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Bussia has suffered from thetn almost every year. As we shall have oc- 
casion hereafter to refer to such of these migrations as afford facts bear- 
ing upon the questions under discussion, we will omit further mention of 
them here. 
According to Koerte 53 Germany has been visited in some part of its 
territory by the locusts the following years since the middle of the fif- 
teenth century : 1475, 1527, 1030, 1080,' 1093, 1G90, 1712, 1714, 1715, 1719, 
1727, 1728, 1729, 1730, 1731, 1734, 174G, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1752, 
1753, 1754, 1759, 1703, 1803, 1825, 1820, 1S27. 
In Spain 59 the chronicles of locust visitations have distinguished the 
following years as the most noted : 1495, 1542, 1547, 1019, 1082, 1088, 1792. 
An examination of Koppen's chronological record of locust migrations 
\o European Eussia and the adjoining provinces on the south shows the 
following dates of visitations to some one or other section of this area : 
1008, 1092, 1094, 1095, 1103, 1195, 1237, 1333, 1334, 1335,1330, 1475, 1527, 
1530, 1542, 1050, 1089, 1090, 1093, 1708, 1710, 1712, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 
1750, 1757, 1783, 1793, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1805, 1800, 1812, 1813, 
1814, 1815, 1810, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 
1832, 1834, 1835, 1830,1843, 1844, 1845, 1840, 1847, 1848, 1850, 1851, 1853, 
1 1850, 1859, 1800, 1801. Dates subsequent to 1801 are omitted from this 
list though given by that author. 
In our notice of locust movements on other parts of the Eastern con- 
tinent we shall not attempt to give the accounts in chronological order, 
or to pay any particular attention to dates, but to quote such facts as 
will assist in determining the areas visited, the direction of flight, the 
faunal districts to which the species appertain, &c. 
Locusts in Asia and adjacent islands. — The monumental remains of Nin- 
eveh and Babylon reveal the fact of their presence, showing that they 
were used as food. Tbey are also very distinctly figured on a cylinder, as 
mounted upon and feeding on some kind of shrub, the antennae, long 
posterior legs, and abdomiual segments being clearly shown 59 ". The ac- 
curate and striking description given by Joel is so exact that we think it 
evident the species was Pachytylus migratorius ; but the remarkable fact 
which corroborates this opinion is the unusual direction of movement, 
as will hereafter be seen. 
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a laud 
barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea and his hinder part toward the 
utmost sea*. 
Diodorus Siculus 61 says, speaking of the Acridophagi " over against 
Babylon," that — 
In these parts in the time of the spring, the south winds rise high and drive an in- 
finite number of locusts out of the desert of an extraordinary bigness, furnished with 
M " Die Strich— , Zug- oder Wanderheuschrecke." Berlin, 1828. p. 6. 
M Ignot tie Asso. ' • Oryctolog. et Zool. Arragonias," 1764, p. 113 in Ritter's Heuschreckenplage tier Alten 
Welt," p. 11. 
69a Rawlinson s Ancient Monarchies, ii., 493. The "buzzing insect " mentioned in the Zendavesta 
probably refers to the locust. 
"Chap, ii, 20. 
"Booth's Transl., i, p. 170. 
