4G REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
The locusts also ofteu commit great ravages in China, and especially 
in the Province of Xensi. 35 In the year 104 B. C. a swarm arose in the 
east and flew through Turhoung, near Jumeu — Thor at the entrance of 
the desert of Loj, in Western China — and the consequence was so great 
a famine that the campaign which the Emperor Wan Li was prosecuting 
had to be abandoned. 8 * Xavarette 87 says that in the reign of the Em- 
peror Tai-Zung (about A. D. 030) immense swarms of locusts infested 
China, and that this noble Emperor, to stay the plague, took up a locust 
in the presence of the people and ate it, and immediately the locusts 
left his empire. 
Ma-tuan-lin, in his grand encyclopedia entitled Wen bein-tun kao, 
registers year by year the locust devastations for a period of 1924 years, 
in which are recorded 173 visitations. 88 
John White 89 witnessed such flights of locusts in the island of Manila 
in 181!) that he was for hours protected from the rays of the sun by the 
passing swarms. " Fortunately," he adds, "this is not the case every 
year, ami many years have elapsed without an invasion." He simply 
describes them as brown and resembling the large flying grasshop- 
per. It had at the time he wrote not been satisfactorily ascertained 
from whence they came, whether from a distance or near at hand. Paul 
De la Girouiere 90 asserts that the locusts almost regularly every seven 
years leave the isles of the south in clouds and fall upon Luzon, bring- 
ing desolation and even famine. He describes their appearance in flight 
as a "fire cloud in the horizon.'' The figure given in his work is beyond 
question that of an Acridiwm. A more recent traveler to these islands, 
F. Jagor, confirms the statements of Gironiere as to the locust visita- 
tions, but adds in a note that the species is identified by Gerstacker as 
Oedipoda subfasciata of Haan — Acridium manilense of Mayen. 91 
In the East Indies, according to Wahl, 92 there were found not only the 
■destructive army locust (G. migratorius), but also a kind of yellow locust 
called Tscheddy, which often covers whole fields and darkens the air 
like a cloud. 
Major Moore 9J was an eye-witness in Poonah how a swarm of locusts 
laid waste the country of Mahratta, and was supposed to have come 
out of Arabia. Their flight (or column) is supposed to have extended 
over five hundred miles. 94 The species is described as blood-red, and as 
different from G. migratorius. The Bombay Courier 9 '" states that a great 
85 "Reise der Hollandischen Gesandtschaft nach China vom Jahre lG55-'57," p. 356. — Kefferstein. 
86 Ritter, p. 7. 
87 "An Account of the Empire of China," Churchill's Voyages, i, 95. 
88 Alfonso Andreozzi, " Sulle Cavallette, " &c. — Noticed in Bulletino, Soc. Ent. Ital. , ii, 1870, p. 77. 
89 " Voyages to the China Sea," 140. 
80 "Twenty Tears in the Philippines," 229. 
91 " Travels in the Philippine Islands," 273. 
92 Erdbeschreibnng von Ostindien, B. 2, 844. — Kefferstein. 
93 According to Kirby and Spence. Introduc. pt. 1, 239. 
94 As no statement of this kind is found in Maj. Moore's ' ' Narrative of Captain Little's Detachment," 
we presume the communication was verbal or by letter. 
95 January 21, 1826, as quoted in the Asiatic Journal, vol. 23, pg. 90. 
