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Orcgon. Salt Lake Tribune (May l4) : Now infesting six townships in eastern 
part of Baker County. Swarming off forest reserve and public domain 
on 35,000 acres of rich crop land in Pine and Eagle Valleys. 
California. S. Lockwood (June 19) : A very scattered infestation occurred 
in Iassen County, Calif., 18 or 19 miles northwest of Reno, Nev. , on 
the California-Nevada line. Infestations consist, so far as known, 
of very widely scattered individuals, difficult to find in the 
vegetation of the area. Infested area, so far as detorminod at a 
survey, not more than 5 square miles, and, in many places in that 
area, crickets found only occasionally. In no instance found in 
numb er s . 
WHITE GRUBS ( Phyllophaga spp.) 
Massachusetts. W. B. Becker (June 27): Adults partially defoliated an 
ash tree near a street light during the nights late in May. 
Oklahoma. E. A. Eenton (June 20): Adults of the wheat white grub 
P. lanceolata Say, reported as damaging cotton near Walters, Cotton 
County, and as defoliating sheltcrbelt trees, chiefly elms, near 
Watonga, Blaine County, and in a nursery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 
County. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia japonica Newm. ) 
Connecticut. J. P, Johnson (June): Reports of damage, and 
requests for information on control in lawns, indicate 
caused by the grubs is increasing yearly. Most of the 
southwestern Connecticut. 
New Jersey. E. Kostal (June l6) : Eirst beetle found today 
ville, Monmouth County. 
Pennsylvania. T. L. Guyton (June 6): Larvae found in lawn 
Hudson, near Wilkes-Barre, in an abundance of 15 to 20 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (June): 
observed week beginning June 19 at Newark. 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (June 24): Eirst beetles taken at College Park on 
June 12. Early reports, unaccompanied by specimens, received, from 
Eastern Shore. Eour beetles taken from a potato field near Pocomoke 
on June l6. 
increase of 
that damage 
reports from 
at Morgan- 
grass at 
per square foot. 
Adults first 
H. L. Dozier (June 12): Beetles issued in abundance on June 11 
at Cambridge, following first heavy rain in weeks. 
H. C. Donohoc (June 21): A single beetle found on June 6 near 
Princess Anne. Date doubtless marks the approximate start of beetle 
emergence in this locality since the first beetle in 1938 was found 
on June 5 in the same spot. 
