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Statistical Report of the Illinois State Board of Agbiculi 
ure for August, 1885. Circular No. 125, pp. 14, 16, 1/ 
19, 21, 22, 28. Correspondents’ Remarks. 
Clinton, Jefferson, Macoupin, Madison , Pike , Richland am 
Wayne Co's. Corn more or less damaged. Effingham Co. Nume 
rons, but no injury to corn because of rains. White Co. Sonn 
complaint of chinch bugs. 
Prairie Farmer, Aug. 8, 1885. [Note on Crops.] 
. Wisconsin. — Monroe Co. The chinch bug is finishing the destruc 
tion which the cold backward spring and dry summer began. 
Cook, A. J.—Economic Entomology. [Abstract of address befor* 
the Am. Pomological Soc., at Grand Rapids, Mich.] (Prairh 
Farmer, Sept. 26, 1885.) 
“Illinois has lost in one year $75,000,000 worth of corn because 
of chinch bugs.” 
Weed, C. M.—Rise and Fall of the Chinch Bug. (Prairie Farm¬ 
er, Oct. 31, 1885. ) 
Replying to query of a subscriber from Caldwell county, Mo. 
who writes that chinch bugs have disappeared in his locality, the 
influence of wet and dry weather upon this insect is discussed, 
diseases treated of by Shimer, Burrill, and Forbes are mentioned 
and an extract from Shimer’s article given. Micrococcus insecto- 
rum illustrated. Bugs said to be injurious in Effingham county. 
Ill., and mention made of prediction by Forbes that an outbreak 
may occur. A few collected in Champaign Co., Ill. 
Statistical Report of the Illinois State Board of Agricult¬ 
ure for December, 1885. Circular No. 126, pp. 23, 24, 
26, 31, 33. Correspondents’ Remarks. 
Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Hamilton, Kankakee, Richland, 
and Wayne Co's. Corn injured to some extent,—either as to 
quality or quantity. • 
Forbes, S. A.—Entomological Calendar. (Fourteenth Rept. State 
Ent. of Ill. (1884), p. 4.) 
Contribution to the life history of the chinch bug. The usual 
existence of two broods inferred, with an occasional third. Life 
history essentially the same whether a year of great abundance or 
of scarcitv. 
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Lintner, J. A.— Blissus leucopterus (Say). The Chinch Bug. 
(Second Rept. on the Injurious and other Insects of the 
State of New York (1884), pp. 148-164. Figures.) 
Gives short bibliography, account of the appearance of the in¬ 
sect in New York in 1882, description, history, origin of common 
name, (quoted from Fitch), and life history. As a general rule 
second brood less injurious than first, as their food plants are 
more advanced and better able to resist attack. A dimorphic, 
