30 THE CHINCH BUG. 
early as 1845, in Illinois, Dr. William Le Baron, afterwards State 
entomologist, gave the food plants of the chinch bug as follows: 
iG. 5.—Corn plant two feet tall infested with chinch bugs. (Author’s illustration.) 
% * ok 
“all kinds of grain, corn, and herd’s-grass” (timothy).¢ 
But to this day in Illinois, as shown by the observations of Professor 
@ Prairie Farmer, December, 1845. 
