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ECONOMIC BIBLIOGKAPHY OF THE CHINCH BUG. 



1785-1888. 



1785. 



Webster on Pestilence, v. 1, p. 279. 



Fields of wheat in North Carolina so overrun by chinch bu^ 

 as to threaten total destruction to the grain. [Not seen. See 

 Fitch's 2d Kept. Ins. N. Y., p. 279.] 



1789. 



Morgan, Col. George. — Chintz bug-fly. (Annals of Agriculture, 

 London, 1789, v. 11, p. 471.) [Not seen. See Can. Ent., 

 V. 20, p. 126.] 



1822. 



KiRBY AND Spence. — (An Introduction to Entomology, 1822, ed. 

 4, V. 1, p. 170. [See also ed. 7, 1863, p. 92.] 



"America suffers also in its wheat and maize from the attack 

 of an insect of a different order; which, for what reason I know 

 not, is called the chintz-bug-fly. It appears to be apterous, and 

 is said in scent and color to resemble the bed-bug. They travel 

 in immense columns from field to field, like locusts, destroying 

 everything as they proceed; but their injuries are confined to the 

 States south of the 40th degree of north latitude. From this ac- 

 count the depredator here noticed should belong to the tribe of 

 Cimicidse; but it seems very difficult to conceive how an insect 

 that lives by suction and has no mandibles could destroy these 

 plants so totally." 



1831. 



Say, Thomas. — Lygceus leAicopterus. Descriptions of new Species 

 of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America, Dec, 1831, 

 p. — (Reprinted in Trans. N. Y. State Agric. Soc, 1857, p. 

 774; and in Complete Writings of Thomas Say, v. 1, p. 329.) 



' Original description (written at New Harmony, Ind.) from a 

 single specimen taken on the eastern shore of Virginia.* 



*The occurrence of the chinch bus in Illinois as early as 1823 is established by a note from S. A. 

 Forbes, fmbllwhed in "Insect Life" (Washington, D. C.) for February, fl89, p. 249. 



