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Statistical EEroET of the Illinois State Board of Agricult- 

 ure FOR August, 1885. Circular No. 125, pp. 14, 16, 17, 

 19, 21, 22, 28. Correspondents' Eemarks. 



Clinton, Jefferson, Macoupin, Madison, Pike, Richland, and 

 Wayne Co's. Corn more or less damaged. Effingham Co. Nume- 

 rous, but no injury to corn because of rains. White Co. Some 

 complaint of chinch bugs. 



Prairie Farmer, Aug. 8, 1885. [Note on Crops.] 



Wisconsin. — Monroe Co. The chinch bug is finishing the destruc- 

 tion which the cold backward spring and dry summer began. 



Cook, A. J. — Economic Entomology. [Abstract of address befove 

 the Am. Pomological Soc, at Grand Rapids, Mich.] (Prairie 

 Farmer, Sept. 26, 1885.) 



"Illinois has lost in one year $75,000,000 worth of corn because 

 of chinch bugs." 



Weed, C. M.— Rise and Fall of the Chinch Bug. (Prairie Farm- 

 er, Oct. 31, 1885.) 



Replying to query of a subscriber from Caldwell county, Mo., 

 who writes that chinch bugs have disappeared in his locality, the 

 influence of wet and dry weather upon this insect is discussed, 

 diseases treated of by Shimer, Burrill, and Forbes are mentioned, 

 and an extract from Shimer's article given. Micrococcus insecto- 

 rum illustrated. Bugs said to be injurious in Effingham county, 

 111., and mention made of prediction by Forbes that an outbreak 

 may occur. A few collected in Champaign Co., 111. 



Statistical Report of the Illinois State Board of Agricult- 

 ure FOR December, 1885. Circular No. 126, pp. 23, 2-t, 

 26, 31, 33. Correspondents' Remarks. 



Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Hamilton, Kankakee, Richland, 

 and Wayne Co's. Corn injured to some extent, — either as to 

 quality or quantity. 



Forbes, S. A. — Entomological Calendar. (Fourteenth Rept. State 

 Ent. of 111. (1884), p. 4.) 



Contribution to the life history of the chinch bug. The usual 

 existence of two broods inferred, with an occasional third. Life 

 history essentially the same whether a year of great abundance or 

 of scarcity. 



Lintner, J. A.—Blissus leucoptrrus (Say). The Chinch Bug. 

 (Second Rept. on the Injurious and other Insects of the 

 State of Now York (1884), pp. 148-164. Figures.) 



Gives short bibliography, account of the a])penrance of the in- 

 sect in New York in 1882, description, history, origin of common 

 name, (ciuoted from Fitch), and life history. As a general rule 

 second brood less injurious than first, as their food i)lants are 

 more advanced and better able to resist attack. A dimorphic. 



