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Louis, Mo. This scale has teen reported iron China, Japan, Egypt, and India. 
In order to determine the extent to which this scale might have spread within 
the city of St. Louis, and also it s v - potential importance as an economic pest, 
a survey hy the Bureau in cooperation with the Missouri State Department of 
Agriculture was Begun in December 1940. Up to January 15 thorough inspection 
of parks and other locations within the city of St. Louis has disclosed infestr 
tions in only 2 places — 1 in the immediate neighborhood of the Missouri Botani- 
cal Gardens and another north of Forest Park. It has been found on approximate 
ly 4g different genera, of plants and no conclusion has as yet been reached as 
to a favored host. Information is also being obtained as to destinations of 
plants which have been moved from the infested area, during the last several 
years, and such destinations are being inspected or are reported to State offi- 
cials. (B. M. Gaddis, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
JAPANESE BEETLE 
The 1939-4(3 brood of the Japanese beetle wen generally characterized by 
retarded development in all its stages. Prehibernation larval development in 
the fall of 1939 was retarded, and climatological conditions during the spring 
of 19^0 further retarded late larval development. As a, result, beetle emergent 
was consistently from 10 days to 2 weeks later than normal throughout the in- 
fested areas. ITo detailed survey of the regional concentration of the beetles 
in the area of general distribution, such as has been made annually for the 
last several years, was carried out in 1940, but observations were made of the 
situation in connection with other field work. A narked increase in beetle 
abundance and spread was noted in southwestern Connecticut, while the infesta- 
tion in Westchester County and the western half of Long Island in Dew York was 
fully as heavy as in the preceding year. In Hew Jersey the northern part of 
the State below the hilly region had a dense beetle population; in the central 
portion where the infestation has been rather sparse for several years, beetle 
abundance has so increased that tree injury and marked feeding on soybeans anc 
corn were common; in the southern portion, particularly in Salem and Cumber lane 
Counties, the infestation was fully as heavy as during the previous year. In 
Pennsylvania the infestation in the southeastern portion, particularly in lower 
Chester and Lancaster Counties, has remained very heavy, but in the Harrisburg 
area, a marked decline in the infestation was noted. In the northeastern pant 
of Maryland, from the latitude of Baltimore northward to the Pennsylvania, line, 
the infestation continued extremely heavy. The same condition prevailed in the 
upper half of Delaware. The secondary centers of localized heavy infestation 
on the Eastern Shores of Maryland, and Virginia have increased markedly in both 
intensity of infestation and local dispersion, as compared with the situation 
in 1939* The development of the infestation on the Eastern Shore Peninsula 
is especially interesting in view of the rather limited pasture lands suitable 
as breeding areas. The infestation in the District of Columbia and adja,cent 
portions' of Maryland and Virginia,- has increased markedly in both extent and 
intensity, as compared with the situation in 1939. This heavily infested area 
now comprises approximately 290 square miles. In Hew England increase in both 
beetle abundance and local dispersion was observed in 1940 at a number of the 
known localized centers of heavy infestation, particularly at South Egremont 
and Worcester, Mass.; Keene, U. H. ; Providence, R. I.; and Hartford and Hew 
Haven, Conn. A very heavy localized infestation in White River Junction, Vt., 
