TABLE OF CONTENTS, 
Page. 
Letter of submittal 3 
Introductory 5 
Reasons for publishing at present time, 5 — Acknowledgments of assist- 
ance, 5. 
Past history 5 
The Chinch Bug a southern rather than a northern insect, 5— Its early ap- 
pearances, 6 — First scientific description, 6 — The name “ Mormon louse,” 
6 — First recorded appearance in Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, and Wiscon- 
sin, 6 — Damage in 1864 and 1868, 6 — Estimates of loss in 1871, 6 — The 
great injury in 1874, 6 — First accurate account of early stages, 7— In- 
terest in 1881, 7 — Its first injurious appearance in New York, 7 — Damage 
done in 1887, 7 — Table of losses by States and crops, 8 — Counties report- 
ing loss, 9. 
Geographical distribution . 9 
In New York and New England, 10— In Canada, 10— In the Southern States, 
10 — The States most injured, 10 — In Cuba, 10 — In California, 11 — In 
Mexico, 12. 
Food plants . . . 12 
The cultivated grains, 12 — Wild grasses, 12 — Rice, 13 — Probability of a 
food-plant outside of the Graminese, 13. 
Stages of growth — Descriptive 13 
The egg, 13 — Larval stages, 13 — Pupa, 14 — Imago, 14 — Original descrip- 
tion quoted, 14 — Le Baron’s description, 15 — Fitch’s varieties, 15 — Riley’s 
variety melanosus, 15 — A new variety, 15. 
Number of broods and hibernation 15 
Early misconceptions, 15 — First accurate statement, 15 — Number of broods 
south, 16 — Hibernation, 16— Influence of severe cold, 17 — Odor renders 
hibernating places easily found, 17 — Osage hedges in the West, 17. 
Habits 18 
Flight, 18 — Oviposit.ioD, 18 — Young larvae, 19 — Rate of growth, 19 — Migra- 
tions, 19 — Their habits on corn, 20 — Preparation for hibernation, 20 — Er- 
roneous statement as to oviposition, 21 — Exceptional habits, 21. 
Natural enemies and diseases 21 
No true insect parasites, 21 — A possible hair-worm parasite, 21 — The lady- 
bird enemies, 22 — The lace-winged fly, 22 — True bugs which prey upon 
it, 22 — Testimony against the efficacy of lady-birds, 23 — Vertebrate ene- 
mies, 23 — Birds, 24 — Quail laws, 24— Diseases, 25 — Dr. Shimer’s account 
of the 1865 epidemic, 26 — Professor Forbes’ investigations, 27 — Professor 
Riley’s comments, 28. 
Wet weather and the Chinch Bug 28 
Wet weather inimical, 28 — Professor Forbes’ experiments, 29 — Comments, 
29— Wet weather and disease, 29 — Dr. Thomas’s theory, 30 — Professor 
Riley’s comments, 31 — An anonymous prediction, 31 — Table of tempera- 
ture and rain-fall in North Carolina, 32 — Records of precipitation for 1885, 
1886, and 1887, in Chinch Bug States, 32. 
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