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provisions common to these gardens, such as maize, cassava, plantains, 
yams, tannias, etc. We found the old locusts in actual flocks which 
hopped away before us into the grass and weeds, in the cross sucker 
drains and into adjoining beds of indigenous bush growth. The larger 
proportion of these live ones were males, and many of them were 
paired off with females, nor did they separate except to escape capture. 
A few sickly ones lay on the ground, but the generality of the live ones 
were quite healthy and the females dissected were provided with eggs. 
Pairing and egg-depositions are thus not yet completed. Several dead 
specimens lay on the ground, but these, as at Philadelphia, seem to 
have died naturally or have been killed by disease — rarely were they 
in a condition as though eaten by ants. On proceeding into the parts 
of the field where newly-hatched insects had been observed, we found a 
condition similar to that at Philadelphia — and perhaps worse. The 
young locusts swarmed over the place and were heaped together in 
parts in great masses like so many large bunches. The small drains 
which are covered with bizzy-bizzy and other grasses were simply alive 
with them. The eggs were being rapidly hatched ; and the vegetation 
that the original locusts had spared but waited the attacks of the grow- 
ing brood. Large numbers of the young ones were being destroyed by 
sweeping them from their perches by means of a ladle of ignited 
parafine into which they fell and were burned. A few stray canes 
springing from abandoned shoots shewed traces of the injury by the 
old locusts and several of the shoots were now infested by the young 
ones. The maize, cassava, plantains, etc. were as at Philadelphia. 
Riding down to No. 15 where the locusts had first appeared, we 
found several old insects feeding upon vegetation in the fields — several 
dead ones lay about. Many of the canes shewed instances of locust 
injury, the leaves being reduced to midrib. Eggs were present in large 
numbers, and the young ones were being hatched and were taking up 
positions on the leaves of the canes, in several places in large swarms. 
It seemed that the canes would necessarily suffer, tor although the 
adult locusts had forsaken the canes for the provisions, yet these young 
ones would have nothing else to subsist on, at least until the winged 
state was reached. The young locusts were evidently just beginning to 
hatch over the locust area, being of a pale green colour, rapidly chang- 
ing to a dark brownish green and spotted with age. They are 
then about half-an-inch in length, and wingless. The wings are de- 
veloped after several months, before reaching the perfect state. 
