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cobs, with an occasional imperfect grain attached to them. 
Chinch-bags, mostly adults and pupae, were very abundant behind 
leaves at bases of stalks, where the plants were somewhat green, 
and under every cluster of grass about the field. In the open 
field, where the corn had been recently cut and where the ground 
was rather damp, eighty-three dead bugs imbedded in this fungus 
were counted under a single stalk, and whitened bodies could 
easily be found under any bit of rubbish or piece of herbage 
about the field. Two fungus-covered chinch-bugs were found in a 
field half a mile south, and traces of this fungus were found in 
all other fields examined in this vicinity at this time. From the 
foregoing, it is clear that the white fungus was generally present 
in this neighborhood, having been found in all fields examined. 
The final visit to this section was made by Mr. Johnson and 
myself October 10. The fungus-covered bugs were not so abun¬ 
dant in the open field (B) as formerly, although traces of the 
disease were still present on the ground under grass, weeds, and 
rubbish of all kinds; but only an occasional dead bug was seen 
which bore a fresh fungous growth. As a rule, dirty whitish 
spots, scattered irregularly over the ground here and there, were 
all that remained of the older examples. 
Very few live insects were seen in the corn stubble at this 
time. An occasional cluster of foxtail-grass was thickly covered 
with adults and pupm, but in such places dead insects with a fresh 
fungous growTh were very rarely seen. 
The bugs were still accumulated in the shocks, especially along 
the south side of the field; perhaps because this was the last 
corn cut and w r as greener and better suited for food. In such 
places fungus-covered bugs were quite common, many of them 
apparently just dead, as the white cottony growth was just ap¬ 
pearing on their bodies. The fungus attack, however, had not 
increased since our last visit, but on the other hand had per¬ 
ceptibly diminished. 
Adults and pupse were qui‘e numerous in grass along the lane 
north of B, but were less than half as abundant as nine days 
previous. This reduction was probably due to the flight of the 
winged individuals, and not to any contagious disease, as not a 
single dead insect was found. We did not examine the fields D 
and F, as Mr. Wells told us the condition of affairs was about 
the same as on our previous visit. 
Sporotrichum was generally present in this region at this time, 
as shown by our finding fungus-covered bugs in corn shocks and 
in stubble two miles northeast of Farina, and in similar situations 
in corn on the farm of Mr. B. H. Smith, four and a half miles 
east of the city. The fungous growth on the bugs found at the 
latter place was fresh, but the disease had evidently been present 
in the field for some time past, as traces of old material were 
easily detected on the ground, in corn shocks, and in the stubble. 
Mr. Smith said that no infected bugs had been distributed in the 
