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four small pads at the base, and a terminal one with a small daw 
on each side. 
The female much resembles the male but may be known bv 
its possessing an ovipositor. 
The young locusts are apple green with yellow spots, rather 
soft bodied and wingless. 
The young locusts live in low scrub and long grass and are not 
veiy conspicuous. They feed on leaves, but rarely do any da- 
mage to cultivated plants. The adult, which is a powerful and 
active insect, can often be seen in similar places, taking short 
flights when disturbed, but rarely going more than 20 yards at a 
time. Like the young it eats leaves, but seldom attacks coffee 
01 tea with enough voracity to do harm. I have, however, detect- 
ed it in the act of biting young Para Rubber plants, and it might 
in this way do much harm. It is very injurious, however, to many 
plants, from its habit of laying its eggs in slits cut with its 
ovipositor in twigs of various trees. The eggs, which are white 
cylindrical objects about | of an inch long, are deposited in consi- 
derable numbers in short slits cut in the bark in a spiral manner, 
the locust going round the twig from the lower part upwards 
and laying the eggs as it goes. The twig very speedily dies, 
and tails off. The larvje oil hatching out usually leave the tree 
on which the eggs have been placed and betake themselves to 
the neighbouring grass and low scrub where they feed and deve- 
lops The coflee locust commonly attacks the coffee in this way, 
and I have also seen tea damaged by it, and from one estate 
m Selangor I received a collection of twigs also of guavas and 
other fruit trees and even fronds of ferns which had been 
destroyed in this way. Not long ago also I found an orchid in 
the gardens, in each one pseudobulb contained a double row of 
eggs of this or an allied species arranged in tw~o row's in a 
long slit in the bulb. This however may have belonged to a 
different insect as the eggs were larger than usual and brown, 
and when they hatched out the young locusts were entirely 
green with long antennas. They refused to feed and soon 
perished. 
Though this locust ’must do a good deal ox when abund- 
ant, it is usually neglected, even if pretty common on and about 
almost every coffee estate, A watch, however, should be kept on 
it to prevent its becoming too numerous, and it should be killed 
whenever seen. It is a clumsy flier and can only go short dis- 
tances at a time, so that it can easily be knocked down with 
sticks by children and if too abundant the low scrub and lalang 
near the fields should be cut down and burnt to destroy the 
young ones which feed there. 
Crickets. 
Some specimens of a cricket which had been doing damage by 
biting off the tops of young rubber plants near Klang w r ere sent 
me by Mr. Darby, They are like most of these animals noctur- 
nal, remaining in holes during the day and coming out at night to 
