12 
1856. 
Fitch, Asa.— [Insects] Infesting Field Crops. 1. Wheat. Af¬ 
fecting the Stalk. (Second Kept. Ins. N. Y., pp. 279-297.) 
An elaborate article on the Chinch Bug (Micropus leucopterus), 
treating of its early history, distribution, life history, injuries, and 
remedies. Three ' specimens taken in N. Y. Nine varieties de¬ 
scribed. False chinch bugs described. 
1857. 
Prairie Farmer, April 9, 1857, v. 17, p. 113. 
A correspondent says, if spring wheat is sown as soon as the 
frost is out of the ground it will escape destruction by chinch bug. 
Prairie Farmer, Aug. 13, 1857, v. 17, p. 262. 
Chinch bugs doing much injury in Brown county. 
Signoret, V.— Essai Monographique du Genre Micropus, Spinola. 
(Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, V., ser. 3, p. 31.) 
r “A technical description from specimens received from New 
York and Cuba.” [Not seen. See Howard’s Bibliographical 
List, Kept. ( IT. S. ) Commiss. Agric. 1887, p. 85. ] 
1858 
Prairie Farmer, July 23, 1858, v. 18, pp. 23/, 241. 
A correspondent from Wafren county reports that wheat is being- 
injured by rust and chinch bug. 
Item from “Polo Advertiser,” of July 15, saying that chinch 
bug and rust are making sad havoc with the wheat. 
Emery’s Journal of Agriculture, July 22, 1858, v. 2, p. 55. Wheat, 
Corn, Oats, Grass, and Berries, in Egypt. 
A Marion county correspondent mentions a report that the chinch 
bug and the Hessian fly have injured some fields of winter wheat. 
Prairie Farmer, July 30, 1858, v. 18, p. 249. 
The “Marion County Advocate” for July, 21, reports the chinch 
bug as seriously damaging corn. 
Prairie Farmer, Aug. 13, 1858, v. 18, p. 264. The Grain Crop 
of 1858. 
From Lee and McHenry counties, correspondents report wheat 
injured by rust, blight, and chinch bug. 
Hinkley, H.—Yheat Raising. Chinch Bug. (Emery’s Journal 
of Agriculture, Sept. 16, 1858, v. 2, p. 182.) 
Last year chinch bugs not present on newly-opened prairie 
farms. This year they appeared in myriads just after harvest, and 
have attacked sorghum and destroyed second sowing of millet. They 
