84 



The President announced that he had received letters of regret from Mr. J. H. Oom- 

 stock, Mr. C. W. Hargitt, Mr. H. Gartnan, Mr. 0. P. Gillette, and Mr. C. H. Tyler 

 Townseod. 



On motion of Mr. Alwood, seconded by Mr. Smith, it was resolved that Mr. Riley 

 be requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting in Insect Life, and on motion of 

 Mr. Smith, seconded by Mr. Bruner, the Secretary was instructed to send an abstract of 

 the proceedings to the Canadian Entomologist. 



On motion of Mr. Southwick, the Association passed a vote of thanks to Mr. Riley 

 and the members of his office force for the courtesies to members during the meeting of 

 the Association. 



On motion of Mr. Osborn, a vote of thanks was extended to the President for his 

 able efforts to make the meeting a success. 

 The Association then adjourned. 



L. 0. HOWARD, 



Secretary. 



Just after tho adjournment of the meeting the following communication was received 

 from Mr. Snow, one of the vice-presidents of the Association, which, although it can not 

 properly be incorporated in the minutes, may be properly appended here : 



THE CHINCH BUG DISEASE AND OTHER NOTES. 



BY F. H. SNOW, LAWRENCE, KANS. 



In response to your circular letter asking for notes of work done in economic ento- 

 mology during the past year I beg to submit the following brief and incomplete account of 

 the work done in Kansas this year under my direction in the matter of the artificial dis- 

 semination of a contagious disease or diseases among chinch bugs : 



The legislature of the State of Kansas at its last session in the winter of 1890-'91 

 made an appropriation of $3,500, available during the years 1891-'92, for the purpose of 

 carrying on these experiments. With this money I have been enabled to largely increase 

 the facilities of my laboratory and to conduct on a rather extended scale practical experi- 

 ments in the field. According to a provision in the act of appropriation, I am required 

 to make a monthly report to be printed in the official State paper of Kansas, the Topeka 

 Dally Capital. From my l--jst report, made on July 15, I quote as follows : 



Since making the last report, June 15, the wheat has ripened and mostly been har- 

 vested. The chinch bugs at harvest time left the wheat fields and invaded the fields of 

 young corn. The experiments of 1889 and 1890 were carried on among bugs in the corn 

 fields, and the experiments of this year in wheat fields are thus new features in the work. 

 The results have been gratifying, but the reports from this year's corn fields and the in- 

 vestigations of my field assistant, Mr. Hickey, show that the massing of the bugs in the 

 hills of corn offers more favorable conditions for the successful workings of the disease 

 than the usual conditions incident to the presence of bugs in wheat. 



The hatching and appearance of the young bugs is a feature in the work added since 

 the last report. It is with satisfaction that I note the evident communicability of the 

 disease from old to young bugs by contact. The young bugs are as susceptible to the 

 infection as the old ones. 



The part of the State reporting bugs in the corn fields lies between 96° 30' and 98'* 

 30' west longitude ; or between a line drawn through Marshall, Pottawatomie, along the 

 eastern boundary of Geary, Morris, Chase, and along the eastern boundary of Greenwood, 

 Elk and Chautauqua Counties, and a line drawn along the eastern boundary of Jewell, 

 Mitchell, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Rice, Reno, Kingman, and Harper Counties. This bug-in- 



