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the egg to the perfect insect where winter does 

 not interfere.* 



When winter comes the insects seek shelter 

 under sticks, stones, leaves and rubbish of all 

 sorts. 



This is one of the most destructive insects, 

 especially as applied to wheat and oats, and 

 also, though in a lesser degree, to corn. Mr. L. 



Fig 50.— Young op Chinch Bug: a and &, e^ga; c, youDE; e, larva after first 

 moult; ff larva after second moult; £r, pupa; A, le^ of pupa; U bealL. (After 

 Klley.) 



0, Howard, now United States Entomologist, 

 in 1887 estimated the losses from chinch bugs 

 in nine States to be $60,000,000. Walsh, in 

 1864, estimated the loss in Illinois for that year 

 caused by this bug to be $73,000,000, while 

 Shimer claimed that during the same year 

 three-fourths of the wheat and one-half of the 

 corn of the Mississippi valley was destroyed by 

 it, involving a loss of $100.000,000.t 



* Abstracted from an article on the chinch bug in the 

 second report of the New York State Entomologist for 1885, 



t Second report New York State Bntomologist, 1885, p, 

 156. 



