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ABMYWOEM ( Cirphis un^puncta Haw, ) 
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Maine. J. H, Hawkins (May); First specimens taken on May l6 at Orono, 
Mississippi, C* Lyle and assistants (May 25)s Larvae collected ' from 
oatfields in Leflore and Sunflower Counties the last week in April. 
No serious injury caused. 
Oklahoma.. G. P. Stiles (May 22); Reported from Grady, Kingfisher, Logan, 
and Pottawatomie Counties during the last 10 days. Control operations 
under way in Grady County for 2 weeks with excellent results. Many 
larvae have reached maturity and are pupating, so no serious damage is 
expected, 
MAY BEETLES ( Phyllophaga spp, ) 
Maine, J. H. Hawkins (May l6); Plight at South Paris is apparently the 
heavy one of the y^yoax cycle, 
Vermont, H. L, Bailey (May 23) s First adult noticed on May 15 about lights 
at Montpelier, Washington County, central Vermont, 
Ifessachusetts, A. I. Bourne (May 24); Adults reported as extremely abundant 
under sod in golf courses. Emergence had not taken place but they were 
ready for emergence and flight on the first warm' night, ^ 
New York, N, Y, State Coll. Agr, News Letter (May 6); Big flight expected 
in many parts of New York, Counts of beetles in the soil have shown as 
many as 100,000 per acre ‘in some areas, ' ' ■ • 
Pennsylvania, H. E. Hodgkiss (May 25)j Adults of P, fusca Proel, were 
flying at State College on the evenings of May *6 and 7* Emergence 
general in the State,* ■ 
Georgia, .■ T, L. Bissell (May 8): Two small pecan trees at Griffin have been 
fed on by P., hirticula Enoch for several nights, the beetles stripping 
the new leaves^ (May ll): Numerous beetles are coming to light traps 
at Experiment,; central Georgia, P, hirticula has been found feeding on 
pecan, 
Mississippi. C, Lyle (May 25)s Injury to oak in Chickasaw County and to 
pecan trees inthe northwestern .part of the State, Specimens of P, 
bipartita Horn received from De Soto County early in May, with informa- 
tion that they were feeding on pecan trees, 
Tennessee, G. M, Bentley (May 23 )s Heavy emergence in the vicinity of 
Memphis, Shelby County, on May 6, 
Ohio, T, H, Parks (May 26); Reported as cutting off oak leaves and 
devouring foliage of trees in Madison County, 25 miles west of Columbus. 
Specimens broxight in from Fairfield County, with report that they were 
defoliating an acre of raspberries, were fervida P, , P, fraterna Harr, 
and hirticula . (Det, by C. R. NeiswanderT) 
