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ECONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OE THE CHINCH BUG 
1785-1888. 
1785. 
Vebster on Pestilence, v. 1, p. 279. 
Fields of wheat in North Carolina so 
s to threaten total destruction to the 
itch’s 2d Kept. Ins. N. Y., p. 279.] 
overrun by chinch bug 
grain. [Not seen. See 
1789. 
[organ, Col. George.— Chintz bug-fly. (Annals of Agriculture 
v°20°p 126 9 ] V ' U ’ P ' 471 *^ ^ Not Seen ' See Can * Ellt -> 
1822. 
irby and Spence (An Introduction to Entomology, 1822, ed. 
*_ v - E P- 1/0 - [See also ed. 7, 1863, p. 92.] 
., al J 0 iu , itS , wheat , and maize from the attack 
f +i Afferent order; which, for what reason I know 
t, is called the chintz-bug-fly. It appears to be apterous and 
■said m scent and color to resemble the bed-bug. They travel 
lvt!hfnT fla CO i UmUS u , t0 field ’ like locusts, destroying 
atJs srnftl f \i y P < o > , C i ee f ’ bllt ^i 611 ' m i uries are confined to the 
ates south of the 40th degree of north latitude. From this ae- 
nt the depredator here noticed should belong to the tribe of 
at livS’ bv l S6emS i 'i ery difficnlt t0 conceive how an insect 
ints so totally?’ ,0n aWl ,RS "° mandlbles could destroy these 
1831 . 
I Y, TBOMAS —Lygwus leucopterus. Descriptions of new Species 
Heteropterous Hennptera of North America, Dec., 1831, 
Eh. (Reprinted m Trans. N. Y. State Agric. Soc. 1857 n 
. 774; and in Complete Writings of Thomas Say, v. 1 , p. 320) 
Original description (written at New Harmony, Ind.) from a 
g e spe cimen taken on the eastern shore of Virginia.* 
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