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Matthews, A. L. — Spring Wheat and Chinch Bugs. (Prairie 

 Farmer, Nov. 6, 1886.) 



Writing from Reno Co., Kan., says: "I came to this county 

 before there was a crop of any kind of grain raised here, and I 

 found the chinch bugs so thick that I could scrape them up by 

 the double handful. I have known them to do more damage in 

 winter wheat, corn, oats, and millet in this locality than they ever 

 did in spring wheat to my knowledge." Believes some varieties 

 of spring wheat more subject to chinch-bug ravages than others. 

 Some spring wheat has more tender straw than others. 



Praieie Farmer, Nov. 13, 1886. Entomological Progress in Illi- 

 nois. 



Mention of Prof. Forbes's studies of the chinch-bug outbreak 

 in Southern Illinois. 



Statistical Report Illinois State Board of Agriculture for 

 Dec, 1886. Circular No. 132, pp. 20-36. Correspondents' 

 Remarks. 



Bond, Fayetie, Franklm, Gallatin, Hamilton, Madison, Marion, 

 Monroe, Saline, Union, Wabash, Wayne, and Williamson Co's. 

 Drouth and chinch bugs have injured corn more or less seriously 

 in the foregoing counties — 50 per cent, in Hamilton, 10 per cent, 

 in Union. 



Yan Duzee, E. p. — Occurrence of the Chinch Bug (Blissus 

 leiicopterus. Say) at Buffalo, N. Y. (Can. Ent. v. 18, p. 

 209; Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont., v. 17, p. 20.) 



Abundant at Buffalo for many years. Took it in 1874 at Lan- 

 caster, N. Y. ; also taken at Ridgeway, Ont. "Ordinarily the short- 

 winged form predominates, but in hot, dry summers, such as those 

 of 1881 and 1886, they mostly acquire fully developed membranes. 

 I find on comparison with a lot of perhaps one hundred fully de- 

 veloped examples from Kansas, that ours are quite uniformly larger 

 and more robust, with longer hairs on the pronotum." Some hay fields 

 iijured this year. "Have always found the insect in hay fields, 

 generally in timothy or clover, occasionally among wild grasses. 

 Do not recollect ever taking a specimen in a grain field of any 

 kind." 



Webster, F. M. — Insects affecting the Corn Crop. (Rept. Ind. 



State Board of Agriculture, 1885, p. ; Author's edition, 



p. 15.) 



Short compiled general article. 



Forbes, S. A.— The Entomological Record for 1885. (Miscellane- 

 ous Essays on Economic Entomology, by the State Ento- 

 mologist [of III.] and his Entomological Assistants, pp. 5, 23.) 



The chinch bug has been upon the increase in certain parts of 

 the State, and unless unfavorable weather should interpose a check 



