LOSSES CAUSED r.Y CIII.Xcn BUGS. 
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in the tops of trees, especially where the tops were dead, under the 
bark and often from 50 to 75 Peel from the ground. This was a 
piece of astounding information, to the writer at Least, and it was 
onlv after securing specimens that he was able to solve the mystery. 
This insect, in all stages of development except the egg^ hibernates 
under loose bark. It i- broader and much Hatter than the true chinch 
bug, l>nt the w ilia's are white and the body black. 
The object in calling attention to these bogus chinch bugs is to 
prevent their confusion with the true Blissus leucopterus, a- in some 
cases people finding them and supposing them to he the true pot 
are likely to become panic stricken and often destroy property un- 
Qecessarily, so notorious has the name "chinch bug" become in the 
United States. 
LOSSES CAUSED BY CHINCH BUGS. 
It would appear that this pest first made its presence known by 
its ravages in the wheat iields of 
Carolina fanner-: for we are told 
L785 the Iields in this State were 
with them as to 
the Xort h 
that "in 
so overrun 
threaten a 
of the grain. 
the crops 
total destruction 
And at length 
w e r e s o d e - 
stroyed in some 
districts that 
farmers were 
obliged to 
a b a n d on t h e 
Sowing of wheat. 
It was four or 
five years that 
they continued 
SO numerous at this time." " 
In the year L809, a- stated by Mr. J. W. Jefferys,'' the chinch bug 
again became destructive in North Carolina to such an extent that 
in Orange County farmers were obliged to suspend the sowing of 
wheat for two year-. In 1839 c the pest again became destructive in 
the Carolinas and in Virginia, where the bugs migrated from the 
wheat fields at harvest to the corn, and in 1840 there was a similar 
outbreak, and both wheat and corn we're seriously injured. In all 
of these cases, however, there is no recorded estimate of the actual 
financial losses resulting from the attack- of the chinch bug. Accord- 
FlG. 9. 
Brachyrhynchus </ranulatus: a, early nymph; b, adult; c, late 
nymph. All enlarged (original). 
a Webster on Pestilence, Vol. I. p. 279. No1 seen. 
6 Albany Cultivator, Brs1 series, Vol. VI, p. 201. 
cThe Cultivator, Vol. VI, p. 103. 
Quoted from Fitch. 
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