LOCUSTS IN INDIA AND AUSTRALIA. 
swarin 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 AmphUa, 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 liis 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 " 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 iu 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. 
"Voyage to Abyssinia in 1808 and 1810, App. lsi. 
98 Quoted in Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond., 1872, xii. 
"Bory do St. Vincent, " Voyage a l'Ue de Bourbon," i, 226.— Mandelslo, Morgenlandische Reise, 1058. 
u, 171. -Bitter. 
