^giveii of the prodigious numbers and ravages of the chinch bug,, 

 with successful method of fighting it — tarred boards, with deep 

 holes every ten feet just outside. The false chinch bug and the 

 ash-gray leaf-bug sometimes mistaken for the chinch bug. Illus- 

 trations. Two liemipterous insects, larvie of lady bugs, and ants» 

 are mentioned as natural enemies, the latter (which destroy the 

 eggs) being regarded as the most efficient. As, remedies, burning 

 rubbish and badly infested crops is recommended; also the sowing 

 of winter rye with spring wheat— one bushel of rye to twelve 

 of wheat. 



Eepokt of Entomologist of the [U. S.] Department of Ag- 

 riculture, 1882, pp. ()4, 65. Extracts from Correspondence. 



Serious injuries reported from Austin, Mo., and Marion county^ 

 111. 



1883. - 



toRBES, S. A. — A Lecture on Insects affecting Corn, pp. 17-20. 

 (Read before a Farmers' Institute at the State Industrial 

 University, Champaign, Illinois, Jan. 29, 1883, and issued 

 in pamphlet form the same year. Review in Advance Far- 

 mer, July, 1883.) 



Brief mention of life history, remedies, and natural enemies^ 

 • bacterial and fungus parasites being especially noted. 



RiLEY, C. V. — Entomological Notes. Diseases of the Chinch Bug. 

 (Rural New Yorker, Feb. 17, 1883.) 



Brief reference to the bacterial and fungus enemies of the chinck 

 bug found by Professors Forbes and Popenoe. 



Forbes, S. A. — Insects affecting Corn. (Prairie Farmer, Feb. 

 23, 1883.) 



"When the chinch bug and army worm are in adversity we con- 

 siderately and generously cease from troubling them, arousing 

 ourselves to attack them only when they are strong and trium- 

 phant. Perhaps this is not the best way. We may find them 

 more vulnerable when they are weak and few, if we take the trouble 

 to stutiy them at that time." 



Beedy Aich [Halsted, B. D.] — The Chinch Bug. (Farmers' 

 Review, March 22, 1883.) 



Compiled general article, mentioning Riley's estimate of loss by 

 chinch bug in 1874 in Illinois and. Missouri as fifty million dol- 

 lars, giving number of Ijroods, place of depositing eggs, effect of 

 weather, and remedies. 



Colman's Rural World, April 19, 1883. Salt on AVheat. 



Notice of a previously printed statement that salt will drive 

 chinch bugs out of wheat and corn fields, and as confirmatory the 

 following item is quoted: "The Massachusetts Agricultural So- 



