115 
Walsh, B. D., and Biley, C. Y.—The Chinch Bug (Micropus 
leucopterus, Say.) (Am. Ent., v. 1, 1869, p. 174.) 
Criticise at length Shimer’s theory of the disappearance of 
chinch-bug outbreaks as a consequence of epidemic disease. Ex¬ 
press belief that such disappearances are due to direct effect of 
weather. 
1870. 
Biley, C. Y.—The Chinch Bug — Micropus leucopierus , Say. 
(Second Ann. Bep. State Ent. Mo., p. 15.) 
Bepeats in brief (p. 24) criticism of Shinier s theory of epi¬ 
demic disease of the chinch-bug. (See Walsh & Biley, 2d entry 
1869.) 
Shimer, H.—Entomological Notes. (Trans. Ill. Hort. Soc., 1869, 
p. 275.) 
Argues from analogy the probability of the occurrence of con¬ 
tagious diseases among insects. 
1872. 
Murie, James. —On the Development of Vegetable Organisms 
within the Thorax of living Birds. (Monthly Micr. Journ., 
April, 1872, v. 7, p. 149.) 
Mention of fungi as occurring in insects. 
Packard, A. S., Jr. —Second Annual Beport on the Injurious and 
Beneficial Insects of Massachusetts, 1872, p. 4. 
Several thousand dollars’ worth of .silkworms killed at East 
Bedford, Mass., by imported pebrine. 
[Biley, C. V.]— Bemarkable Parasitic Fungus. (Sci. American, 
May 25, 1872, v. 26, No. 22, p. 347.) 
Figures a white grub with a Sphseria growing from its anterior 
end. 
F. S. [Snow?].— [White Grub Fungus commonly found in Kansas 
in 1869 and 1872.] (Bural World, June 8, 1872.) 
1873. 
LeConte, J. L.—Hints for the Promotion of Economic Ento¬ 
mology. (Proc. A. A. A. S., 1873, Pt. 2, p. 10.) 
Mentions among checks against insect increase the communica¬ 
tion of fungoid disease (like pebrine of the silkworm) to 
other lepidopterous larvae, and advises experimentation along this 
line. 
1874. 
Burbill, T. J— [Chrysomelid Larva attacked by a Fungus.] 
(Colman’s Bural World, May 15 (?), 1874, v. —, p. — ) 
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