6 
1837. 
New England Farmer, v. 16, p. 21. 
Note of the prevalence of the “chintz bug” in Cumberland Co., 
Va. (See Howard’s Bibliographical List, Bept. [U. S.] Commiss. 
Agric., 1887, p. 84.) 
1839. 
Gibbes, W. S.—[The Chinch Bug.] (Albany Cultivator, ser. 1, 
v. 6, p. 103.) 
Writing from South Carolina, Mr. Gibbes mentions the appear¬ 
ance “within the last two years” of a pest called in Virginia the 
chinch bug. He describes the insects as similar m size and shape 
to the “small black flour weevil,” and says they can fly, but do 
so reluctantly. “They penetrate the stalks and suck them to death. 
His oat crop was totally destroyed; early wheat escaped, but t e 
late was injured. After small grain was harvested, corn covered 
with myriads of the bugs. Burned over part of field first infested. 
[See Fitch’s 2d Piept. Ins. N. Y., p. 278.] 
Jeffreys, J. W.—[“The Hessian Bug.”] (Albany Cultivator, ser. 
1, v. 6, p. 201.) 
Destroyed crops of wheat in Orange Co., N. C., in 1781. [Not 
seen. See Fitch s 2d Dept. Ins. N. Y., p. 278.1 
1845. 
Prairie Farmer, Sept,, 1845, v. 5, p. 227. 
A Hancock Co. correspondent writes that “some [wheat] fields 
are a good deal injured by the bug or fly.” Migrates from winter 
wheat to spring wheat, then to oats, and finally to corn, -travels 
like army worm, but is harder to stop. A neighbor plowed ditch 
around corn field and put in ashes, but it did no gooo. 
Prairie Farmer, Oct., 1845, v. 5, p. 254. Chintz Bugs. 
A farmer in Knox Co. reports that “chintz bugs” are eating 
up wheat and doing extensive damage. -‘They appear m myriads, 
defying all endeavors at extermination.” 
Prairie Farmer, Nov., 1845, v. 5, p. 269. A Mheat Insect. 
Report of the appearance of “a small fly, a little more than 
one eighth of an inch in size,” in Will Co., Ill., upon wheat, caus¬ 
ing heads to turn wdiite. Migrates from wheat to corn—largely 
destroying the latter—and then to young wheat, which it eats 
off just beneath the surface of the earth. In all stages of giow 
Ground perforated by them. Smell like bed-bug. “The ant-eatei 
[Clirysopa or coccinellid?] which preys on the aphids preys alsc 
on this insect.” 
