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the whole length of the field, where salt was not sown, contained 

 more chinch bugs than all the rest of the field, and bore only 

 about half as much wheat per acre. 



Riley, C. Y. — Micropus leucopterus. (General Index and Sup- 

 plement to the Nine Reports on the Insects of Missouri. 

 Bull. No. 6, U. S. Ent. Commiss., p. 58.) 



"Now referred to Biirmeister's genus Blissus." 



Saunders, Wm.— Annual Address of the President of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Ontario. (Canadian Entomologist, 1881, 

 Y. 13, p. 198; Eept. Ent. Soc. Ontario, 1881, p. 5.) 



Mention of serious chinch-bug injuries to corn in Missouri and 

 Kansas and comparatiYe immunity from them in Ontario. 



Farmers' Review, 1881. [Starving out the Chinch Bug.] 



Editors note that farmers in vicinity of Windsor, Ottawa Co., 

 Kan., have resolved to starve out the chinch bug, having, in con- 

 vention, voted to abandon the growing of spring wheat for a series 

 of years. 



EVERETT, W. R. — The Chinch Bug. (Farmers' Review, 



1881 [■?].) 



Writes from Caldwell Co., Mo., that last August, at a meeting 

 for consultation, farmers at Windsor, Henry Co., Mo. [?], agreed 

 not to sow any wheat last fall. Wheat raising has been abandoned 

 *'in this part of Missouri on prairie lands, and the bugs are not 

 so bad as when more wheat was sown. If Prof. Thomas's theory 

 is correct the farmers ought to quit raising corn instead of wheat." 



■ 1882. 



Prairie Farmer, Feb. 11, 1882, Chinch Bugs in Kansas. 



Chinch bugs swarming in prairie grass. Various remedial 

 measures briefiy discussed. Probably the best course is to grow 

 other crops than wheat and barley for at least two years in a 

 district that has been infested. 



FoRBi'S, S. A. — The Ornithological Balance Wheel. (Trans. 111. 

 State Hort. Soc. 1881, v. 15, p. 130; Trans. Ind. Hort. Soc, 

 1881, p. 80. ) 



Fift(3en representatiYcs ul eight species of birds sliot among the 

 chinch bugs had not eaten these insects at all; but one catbird, 

 three brown thrushes, and one meadow lark were previously found 

 to have eaten them in barely sulficient number to show that they 

 have no unconquerable prejudice against them. 



Farmers' Review. Farmers' Review of the Season, and F. R. 

 Cluj3 Record. 



March 30, 1882, v. 8, Supplement, p. 3. IiJl)i)i(/li(un Co. Sonu* 

 chinch bugs. Madison Co. County full of them. April 6, 1882, 

 p. 212. Coles Co. Chinch bugs Hooded out. Shelby Co. Chinch 



