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MORMON CRICKET ( Anabrus simplex Hald. ) 
United States. C. Wakeland (September) : Highlights in the year's control pro- 
gram, which is now at an end, are as follows: The almost complete crop 
protection in all areas where control was adequately planned; the severe 
defoliation and seed destruction hy crick, ets of range grasses and "browse 
plants; the almost complete eradication of crickets in Moffat County, Colo,; 
the reduction in populations in several counties in other States, making 
it possible to attain eradication in 1939 ; the general reduction of popula- 
tions, due to control work, in many of the older infested counties; and 
the material increase in the size of the infested areas in Oregon, North 
Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. 
SUGAR-BEET WIEEWORM ( Limonius calif ornicus Mann.) 
California. M. W. Stone (September 7 ); Responsible for considerable damage to 
young sweet corn plants in a 60 -acre field near Downey, Los. Angeles County. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Pppillia .japonica Newm. ) 
New England, New York, and New Jersey. C. H. Hadley (September): In general, 
an increase in abundance is indicated, as compared with 1937 • particularly 
in Connecticut and at points in western Massachusetts. A heavy but local- 
ized infestation found near South Egremont, in the Berkshire area of Massa- 
chusetts, had evidently existed for a number of years, being of particular 
interest in that it occurs in a northern area of relatively high elevation. 
At points of infestation in New Hampshire and Maine s light- to-general in- 
creases in abundance this season were noted. In the New York City area 
there has been a fairly general increase in the infestation over that ob- 
served last year. In that section the general infestation appears to be 
spreading more rapidly into western Connecticut than in certain portions of 
its outer limits above New York City. In northern New Jersey only a moder- 
ate advance in the other limits was noted at most points. Infestation 
throughout the greater part of New Jersey less severe than that of 1937. 
Heaviest infestation, as for the last several years, is centered. in por- 
tions of Cumberland and Salem Counties, southeastern New Jersey, 
ORIENTAL BEETLE ( Anonala orientalis Wtrh, ) 
Connecticut and New Jersey, C. H, Hadley (September): Reports indicate some in- 
crease in populations of the oriental beetle in northern New Jersey and 
southwestern Connecticut, as compared with 1937. 
ASIATIC GARDEN BnETLE ( Autoser ica c,as tanea Arrow) 
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia. C. H. 
Hadley (September) : Reports show a noticeable increase in the population 
in northern New Jersey, in the area including and surrounding metropolitan 
New York, and in southwestern Connecticut along Long Island Sound, as conv. 
pared, with last year. Also somewhat more abundant in the immediate vicinity 
of Riverton, N. J., in parts of Philadelphia, Pa., and in Washington, D. C. 
