ABSTRACT
THE Amandebele country being within the tropics, and a sunny land, without any snowy, frosty winters, may naturally be expected to abound in those little animals, which thrive so well in the summer heat, aild which in fact are very numerous and various. Of this race, the fan-winged (orthopterotts) division claim and deserve the pre-eminence. These are led by the migratory, innumerable, destructive locusts. In their season they may be seen movillg in myriads, and as clouds driven before the wind, cloud rolling over cloud, filling the air, and completely sweeping away every green blade or leaf from the ground and trees, leaving nothing behind but ,vaste, hunger, and death. Night after night the natives go out to sweep many thousands that have settled upon the grass and bushes, into sacks, carrying them home for food. Yet the IOCllsts are not perceptibly less numerous than before, and the people are often heard exclaiming in wonder, "I yi111bi i ka Mlil1tO," (it is the Lord's army). There is nothing more dreaded by the colonial farmer, or more "testructive to a dist19ict, than these Coulltless locusts. The best way of des-
stroying them, when young and unable to fly, is to tread them down with the thousands of sheep and goats which are at these places; or when on the wing, they are easily driven away by clouds of smoke.
