The Bombay Locust ¹

Abstract

ANOTHER new venture among Indian memoirs has lately been issued, and if subsequent numbers are like this first instalment they will prove of great value. Mr. Maxwell-Lefroy deals in this first issue with the Bombay locust; we prefer to call it by its popular name, for its scientific one seems in doubt. Specimens were sent by Mr. Lefroy, and have been named at the British Museum by Mr. Kirby as Acridium rubescens, Walker, which is apparently quite correct; but we learn from this report that Mr. de Saussure assigns the Bombay locust to Linnaus's species Acridium succinctum. In this report the latter name is chosen as probably being most accurate, but it is extremely doubtful if Mr. Lefroy has made the right choice. It is best, therefore, as “doctors disagree,” to call this pest simply the Bombay locust.