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Packard, A. S,, Jr.- — BUssus leucopterus. Guide to the Study of 

 lusects, pp. 513. oil, lig. 517. Description of imago; hab- 

 its, injuries, epidemic disease of 1865, remedies. 



1870. Riley, C. V. — Micropus leucopterus. 2d Rep. St. Ent. Mo., pp. 



15-47, figs. 1, 2. (See under 1869, Walsh and Riley.) 



1871. Glover, Townend. — Rhyparochromus (Micropus) leucopterus. 



Rep. Com. Agr. 1870, p. 89. Deposition and hatching of 

 eggs. Mode of injury. Two broods annually, perhaps three 

 in the South. Most destructive in hot, dry summers. Early 

 grain most likely to escape their ravages. Remedies. 



1872. Bethune, C. J. S. — Micropus leucopterus. Rep. Ent. Soc. 



Ont., 1871, p. 55. Past history and injuries, description, 

 natural and artificial remedies. 

 Le Baron, Wm.— Idem. 3d Rep. St. Ent. Mo., pp. 142-156. 

 Excessive prevalence in 1871. Methods and agencies for 

 their destruction. Natural enemies. Anticipating ravages 

 by sowing grain early ; saving crop by preventing migrations 

 of insect ; destroying by burning rubbish in fall ; preventing 

 breeding of insect by abstaining from the cultivation of 

 those grains upon which they chiefly subsist. 



Le Baron, Wm. — Chinch Bug. Experience of 1872. Prairie 

 Farmer, August 24, 1872. Believes that a sufficient number 

 of these insects hibernate under dead leaves in the woods 

 to perpetuate the species ; also that the wet spring of 1872 

 destroyed large numbers of the chinch bugs. 



Glover, Townend. — IiJii/parochromus leucopterus. Rep. Com. 

 Agr. 1871-72, p. 84. Localities in which it is injurious. 



Glover, TowiiE-ND.— Micropus (Rhyparochwius) leucopterus. Rep. 

 Com. Agr. 1872, p. 121. Especially destructive to sorghum in a 

 few counties in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas, and to 

 wheat in other counties of the same States. In Crawford 

 county, Mo., three distinct broods noticed, appearing, re- 

 spectively, first of May, last of June, last of August. In- 

 dian CORN in milk at last visitation, and it was seriously 

 injured. 



1874. B. F. J. [Johnson.^— Chinch Bug. Country Gent. XXXIX., 661. 



So abundant upon green corn fodder in central Illinois as to be 

 seriously injurious to the health of horses and cattle, and in 

 some cases caused their death. 



1875. Glovek, Townend. — Micropus {Rhyparochromus) leucopterus. 



Rep. Com. Agr. 1874, p. 127. Localities in which it is in- 

 jurious, 



Everest, H. J. — BUssus leucopterus. Western Rural, July 17. 

 Barricading with boards and coal tar, 



Riley, C. V. — Micropus leucoj)terus. 7th Rep. State Ent. Mo., 

 pp. 19-50, figs. 2, 3, 4. Description of egg, larval stages, pupa, 

 and imago. Past history; destructive powers; injuries in 

 1874 ; food plants ; mode of reproduction and hibernation ; 

 disposition of eggs ; flight. Remedial agencies exhaustively 

 treated. 



