same stage as that above described, but in smaller numbers. I 
could bear of no appreciable injury done by them to small grain in 
this vicinity. As swarms of adults were noticed in the air at Cham¬ 
paign about July _, it is probable that the belds near there ^eie 
infested by these flying hordes. 
From the 12th to the 20th of July, I visited many belds at Fax- 
ton, at Gilman, at Kankakee, at Ashkum, and near Waukegan. I 
found the cliincli-bug in nearly every field of corn, in substantially 
the same condition as at Champaign, much commoner in some fields 
tnan in others, and evidently distributed without any reference to 
the proximity of fields of other grain. Their number lapidly dimin¬ 
ished northward, until, at Waukegan, I found only two or three in 
half an hoar’s search. A careful comparison was made at Cham¬ 
paign, and also at Normal, of belds which had been in corn the 
year preceding and those now in corn following some other crop, 
but no conclusive evidence was discovered of any greater abundance 
of chinch-bugs in the one class of belds than in the other. On the 
15th of July several belds were examined in McLean county. Mod¬ 
erate numbers of adults were found in the corn, but many more of 
the young, most of the latter having just passed the first moult. 
None were seen in the intermediate stages, and only a few eggs 
were found. The adults were consequently of the preceding brood. 
Sorghum belds in the vicinity were not infested, as far as noticed. 
On *the 17th the old bugs were few in number in the belds exam¬ 
ined, and nearly all were young, in stages previous to the pupa. 
Their occurrence in Piatt county, on the 22d of July, is recorded 
by a writer in the Farmer’s Review of that date. On the 21th of 
that month, Mr. F. S. Earle wrote me from Cobden, Illinois: 
“For the past two or three weeks it has been pretty dry, and I 
have heard a great many complaints of chinch-bugs in the corn; but 
we had a good rain last night that I hope will check their work.” 
Hon. Wm. McAdams, of Otterville, in Jersey county, writes July 
Both: “The chinch-bugs promised some time ago to injure badly 
our corn, especially in nelds adjacent to the wheat-helds. Myriads 
of them covered the rows, or several rows of corn next the wheat. 
Patches of this corn were badly affected, turned yellow and ceased 
to grow thrifty. The weather was very dry. But for some reason 
which I am at a loss to explain, the chinch-bugs thrived but poorly 
and at this writing have almost ceased to do much damage.” 
On the 7tli of August, my assistant, Mr. A. B. Seymour, found 
them injuring a held of broom corn in Adams county, about two 
acres of which they had destroyed. In DeKalb county, on the 21st 
of August, the bugs were noticed in the corn in small numbers, and 
were said to be very abundant in some places. On the 8th of this 
month, I visited the held of Bogardus and Johnson, at Champaign, 
previously referred to, and found the chinch-bugs about as abundant 
there as on my former visit. They had not seriously affected the 
crop, however, as far as I could see, as the weather m the interval I 
had been extremely favorable. About four-bfths of the individuals 
were at this time in the pupa stage, and a very few adults were 
seen, evidently of the same brood. On the 16th of August, in most 
of the fields examined, about ninety per cent, were pupae, and many 
were winged. At Jacksonville, on the 29th, chinch-bugs (mostly 
