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* Lintner, J. A.—The Chinch Bug in New York. (Science, Oct. 
19, 1883, v. 2, p. 540. Article noted in Bural New Yorker, 
Nov. 17, 1883.) 
Chinch bugs in northern New York in myriads. First appear¬ 
ance last year, in timothy. The attack is serious, and great alarm 
is felt. It continues to increase notwithstanding wet weather of 
last year and this. Kerosene emulsion recommended. 
Lintner, J. A.—Directions for arresting the Chinch-Bug Inva¬ 
sion of Northern New York. (Circular No. 1—October, 
1883—New York State Museum of Natural History, Depart¬ 
ment of Entomology; Bull. No, 6(5 N. Y. Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station, Oct. 27, 1883. Reprinted, entire, in 
American Rural Home, Nov. 17, 1883, and in 2d Annual 
Rept. State Entomologist of N. Y., 1885, p. 161; and in part 
in Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Nov. 8, 1883.) 
In portions of St. Lawrence county, New York, the chinch bug, 
though only “in the third year (probably) of its introduction and 
the second year of the observation of the attack,” has spread to 
an alarming extent; but it seems practicable by combined effort at 
this stage to prevent its extension over the State. A close examina¬ 
tion of meadows is urged, and three directions are given for imme¬ 
diate procedure; viz., burning dead grass, deep plowing of burned 
area, and harrowing and heavy rolling after plowing. Where 
meadows will not admit of plowing, gas lime may be distributed 
over the ground at the rate of two hundred bushels per acre. This may 
be postponed until November or the early spring, and should be 
confined to the infested portions of meadows unless distributed in 
February. 
Forbes, S. A.—Entomological Notes of the Season. (Illinois Crop 
Prospects, Dept. Agriculture, Circular No. 106, p. 177; Prairie 
Farmer, Dec. 8, 1883, and March 22, 1884; Chicago Evening 
Journal, Mar. 14, 1884.) 
The chinch bug was found in spring depositing the eggs for 
its first brood of young about the roots of corn—a habit not 
hitherto reported. 
Dimmock, George. — Entomological Items. (Psyche, Nov.-Dee., 
1883,-v. 4, p. 119.) 
On March 28 the low land between Belmont and Cambridge, Mass., 
was swarming with chinch bugs. 
Prairie Farmer, Dec. 1, 1883. Chinch Bugs, etc. 
Report of interview with Prof. Forbes, who stated that about 
the only Illinois region in which the chinch bug had evinced any 
considerable activity this fall [1883] was in and about Champaign 
county. Reference to the appearance of the insect in New Y r ork, 
and republication of part of Lintner’s Circular No. 1. 
