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fields. Madison Co. (5). Chinch-bug devastation anticipated. N( 
positive indications. July 14, 1866, p. 25. Champaign, Henry 
and McIIcnry Co’s. No complaint of chinch bugs; and in the las 
two counties there seem to be none. Randolph Co. “Corn back 
ward and bugs forward.” 
Walsh, B. D.—Answers to Correspondents. (Pract. Ent., May 28 
1866, v. 1, p. 77.) 
Incidental mention of some points in life history in reply to i 
correspondent who sent another species supposed to produce th< 
chinch bug. 
Walsh, B D.—Answers to Correspondents. . (Pract. Ent., June 25 
1866, v. 1, n. s., p. 89.) 
Comparison instituted between the chinch bug and an insec 1 
belonging to the same family sent by correspondent for name. 
Walsh, B. D.—Answers to Correspondents. (Pract, Ent., Nov., 1866 
v. 2, p. 21.) 
Beplying to J. Pettit, C. W., who sent specimens of chincl 
bugs, Mr. Walsh states that they “differ remarkably from oui 
specimens by the wings being only half as long as the abdomen.’ 
Infers that they are a geographical variety. Species not before 
knowm in Canada. Says, “As the insect is more peculiarly a south¬ 
ern species, I do not apprehend that it is likely ever to swartr 
with you, as it often does in the West; and at all events, having 
such short wings, it will not be able in Canada to fly in swarnn 
from one locality to another as our little pest occasionally does.’ 
Canada Farmer, Dec. 1, 1866. The Chinch Bug. 
Mentions hibernation of the chinch bug at Grimsby, Ontario, 
and gives account of habits and seasons. Quotes Prairie Farmer foi 
remedies. (Not seen. See Howard’s Bibliographical List., Kept. 
[U. S.J Commiss. Agric., 1887, p. 85.) 
1867. 
Shimer, Henry. —Notes on Micropus ( Lygenus) leucopierus , Say, 
Llj AiL A III. ^ 1 V' ULO UJ1 UXH// K/JSIV& \ fj KAJ tl/O ) l t UOj } 
(“The Chinch Bug”). With an Account of the Great Epi¬ 
demic Disease of 1865 among Insects. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. 
Pliila., 1867, v. 19, pp. 75-80; and Trans. Northern Ill. Hort. 
Soc., 1867-68, pp. 97-101.) 
Writing from Mount Carroll, Ill., gives detailed account of ob-i 
servations during 1864 and 1865, stating that in the Mississippi; 
Talley the insect reached the maximum of its development in 1864,j 
the loss by its ravages that year being estimated at more than 
$100,000,000 in the currency prevailing at the time. Has seen 
columns of the insect a full v^eek on the march across grass to 
corn, in one instance even swimming a small stream. In 1864, 
whole corn fields were overrun by them, the stalks being literally 
raw T from their punctures. When the perfect insects began to 
