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Latthews, A. L. Spring Wheat and Chinch Bugs. (Prairie 
Farmer, Nov. 6, 1886.) 
Writing from Reno Co., Kan., says: “I came to this county 
jfore there was a crop of any kind of grain raised here, and I 
und the chinch bugs so thick that I could scrape them up by 
; e double handful. I have known them to do more damage in 
inter wheat, corn, oats, and millet in this locality than they ever 
d in spring wheat to my knowledge.” Believes some varieties 
spring wheat more subject to chinch-bug ravages than others. 
)me spring wheat has more tender straw than others. 
rairie Farmer, Nov. 13, 1886. Entomological Progress in Illi¬ 
nois. 
Mention of Prof. Forbes’s studies of the chinch-bug outbreak 
Southern Illinois. 
fAtistical Report Illinois State Board or Agriculture for 
Dec., 1886. Circular No. 132, pp. 20—36. Correspondents’ 
Remarks. 
Bond, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Madison, Marion, 
onroe, Saline, Union, 11 abash, Wayne, and Williamson Co's. 
routh and chinch bugs have injured corn more or less seriously 
the. forgoing counties—50 per cent, in Hamilton, 10 per cent. 
Union. 
iN Duzee, E. R—Occurrence of tlie Chinch Bug ( Blissus 
leucopterus, Say) at Buffalo, N. Y. (Can. Ent. v. 18, p. 
209; Rept. Ent. Soc. Out., v. 17, p. 20.) 
Abundant at Buffalo for many years. Took it in 1874 at Lan- 
ster, N. Y.; also taken at Ridgeway, Out. “Ordinarily the short- 
nged form predominates, but in hot, dry summers, such as those 
1881 and 188o, they mostly acquire fully developed membranes, 
find on comparison with a lot of perhaps one hundred fully de- 
loped examples from Kansas, that ours are quite uniformly larger 
d more robust, with longer hairs on the pronotum.” Some hay fields 
iured this year. “Have always found the insect in hay fields, 
nerally in timothy or clover, occasionally among wild grasses! 
) not recollect ever taking a specimen in a grain field of any 
Lid.” 
ebster, F. M— Insects affecting the Corn Crop. (Rept. Ind. 
State Board of Agriculture, 1885, p.-; Author’s edition, 
p. 15.) * 
Short compiled general article. 
►rbes, S. A. The Entomological Record for 1885. (Miscellane¬ 
ous Essays on Economic Entomology, by the State Ento¬ 
mologist [of Ill.] and his Entomological Assistants, pp. 5, 23.) 
The chinch bug has been upon the increase in certain parts of 
3 State, and unless unfavorable weather should interpose a check 
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