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THE CHINCH BUG. 
It was first noticed, as stated in the last section, in North Carolina, 
and Say’s original description was published from a Virginia specimen. 
Fitch records the fact that he had collected specimens in New York, 
but that it was exceedingly rare. Signoret also records it from New 
York, and, as we have just shown, it appeared in 1883 in destructive 
numbers in the northern part of this State. Harris in the first edition 
of his well-known work states that it does not occur in New England, 
but in a foot-note to his second edition states that while the sheet was 
passing through the press he discovered a single specimen in his own 
garden at Cambridge (June 17, 1852). And in 1883, according to Dr. 
George Dimmock (Psyche, November, December, 1883, p. 119;, the 
lowland between Belmont and Cambridge was swarming with them. 
They have also been collected by Dr. Packard at Salem, Mass., in Maine, 
and at the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Dr. 
Lintner records the fact that Mr. H. L. Feruald captured one or more 
specimens in 1879, 1880, and 1882, at Orono, Me. 
In Canada they occurred at Grimsbj 7 , Ontario, in 1866, and were sent 
from that point in that year to Mr. Walsh. Mr. W. H. Harrington col- 
lected specimens found abundantly at Sydney, Cape Breton (N. lat. 46° 
18') in September, 1884 (Can. Ent., November, 1884, p. 218). Dr. Fitch 
received specimens from western Pennsylvania, and also stated that it 
was sent him from Mississippi with the information that in some years 
it damaged the crops of Indian corn. We have found it personally in 
considerable numbers in the rice fields near Savannah, Ga., and Mr. E. 
A. Schwarz and others have collected it in Florida. In the latter State 
Mr. Schwarz found it very abundantly at Biscayne Bay, breeding iu 
the wingless form only in considerable numbers upon Sand Oats {Uni- 
ola paniculata). Mr. Webster has noticed it in Mississippi and Louisi- 
ana. It has also been collected in this same form, upon tbe same 
plant, on the sea shore at Fortress Monroe, Va., by Messrs. Schwarz 
and Heidemann. The States, however, in which it does the greatest 
damage are Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, 
Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, southern Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, 
Kansas, and Nebraska. Uhler records the species from Texas, Califor- 
nia, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, and 
generally throughout the Atlantic region. 
Outside of the United States it is recorded only from Cuba (see 
Signoret u Essai Monographique du Genre Micropus, Spinola;” Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Frauce, V, 3d series, 1857, p. 31), aud the Cuban individuals 
are long-winged, while Mr. Schwarz never found a long-winged indi- 
vidual iu Florida, in spite of the fact that he has collected in localities 
the insect fauna of which is in the main Cuban. This observation con- 
flicts with the general observation of Mr. Uhler that the short-winged 
form seems to be more common in New England than in the Southern 
States. 
The only authentic published record of the occurrence of the Chinch Bug 
west of the Rocky Mountains is the mere mention by Uhler, in his list of 
