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JAPAM!H!SE BEETLE ( EopilLia japonica ) . . 
Conmecticut, J. P, Johnson (October 23)1 Grubs were still feeding in the 
uxDper 2 inches of turf, and control measures are being carried out in 
southern and central Connecticut, Injury v;a,s especially severe in 
the metropolitan areas of New- Haven and Hartford, . 
ORIEHTAL BEETLE ( Anomala oriental is ¥trh.) 
Connecticut, J, P, Johnson (October 24) 1 Eamaged many . lav/ns in Hamden, 
Hew Haven, and Host Haven this fall, are 4 to S inches below 
the surface and -general feeding has ceased, 
A -SCilRilBAEID ( iinoraala undula.ta Mclsh, ) 
Ohio, G. Still (July 21 ): Specimens foiuid feeding on grape loa.vos in 
Stark County, just east of Canton. Collected on Juno 10 after a. hea.vy 
rain, A fev/ daj^s latter all beetles disappeared. Leaves shovred heavy 
surface feeding; not sufficient damage to cause permanent injury/- -to 
vines. On July 17 it ’-^an observed that beetles had disappeared and 
injured leaves turned brown, 
¥IRE¥0RMS (Elateridae) 
Mauno, J. H. Hawkins (October lO): The wheat I’riroworm ( Agriotes m.ancus 
Say) seriously iniured pota.toes planted in first— year sod land and 
in fields whore cultivation has not destroyed couch grass in central 
Maine, 
Vermont, H. L, Hauley (October):' More alDundant than usua]., causing con- 
siderable dama.go to potatoes, particularly in Ha.shington County, 
Mississi”'pi, _ C, Lyle, ct al, (October 24): Injury to sv/oetpotatoes was 
reportec’- from' -Alcorn, , Chipkasaw, Lee, Monroe, and Tippah Counties, 
Some injury vans reported from the southwestern counties, where the 
dauiage was sa.id to be less severe than that of last ycav, 
Minnesota, A. A. Gpppvosky (October 2l): Hir-Q^jorms were quite troublesome 
in lowlands, especially to onions, 
Oklahoma, E. A, Penton (October 23 ): A, mancus Say reported as damaging 
vheat in Alfalfa. County, 
CUT¥0RI'IS (Phalaenidae) 
Louisiana., E. M. Livingstone (October I 5 ): Ped considerably on young 
cajnellias in hotbeds in Hei.\r Orleans during the first 10 days in 
October, 
Missouri, L, Haseman (October 25 ): Since the middle of October, in 
central Missouri, there has been a rather heavy flight of moths of 
the greasy cutworm ( Agrotis :_,Tpsilon Rott,) and smaller numbers of one 
or two other species. 
