34 Contagious Diseases of the Chinch-bug. 
eggs for the brood of the succeeding spring, are much more y 
successful in resisting the disease than are the adults of the firsts 
brood. (d) The fungus is not active in winter, and though it _ 
be present. with the bugs in their winter quarters, they do not ~~ 
die of it, even though the winter be as mild and humid as was 4 
that of 1895-96. ; ‘ 
