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Beetles Collected in Other Than the Gays Mills Area 
Outside the Gays Mills area, "between April 27 and June 30 , 16,468 
beetles were taken in' 41 collections from l6 groves. The predominant 
species were P. hirticula , P. rugosa , and P. fusca . These furnished 40.13* 
24. l6, and 20.77 percent, respectively, of the total "beetles, collectively 
85.06 percent. P. hirticula was very abundant in Lafayette and Iowa Coun- 
ties, where it represented about 90 percent of all beetles taken in each 
collection. Not a single specimen of P. rugosa was taken at Lamont , the 
collection area for Lafayette County, and only 3 at Linden, the collection 
area for Iowa County. P. fusca was rather generally distributed. P. 
prunina was collected almost entirely from sandy areas near Lodi, Poynette, 
and Boscobol. The number of all beetles taken and the proportion of the 
total represented by each are shown in the "totals" line of table 2. The 
lower of the 2 percentages in each space is the one that applies in this 
case. 
Beetle^ Collected in the Gays Hills Area 
In the Gays Mills area 3 0 collections were made between April 26 
and July 29. These included l 6 collections from the regular grove in and 
adjoining the sample pasture in which grub populations and species have 
been studied for several years past and l4 from .5 groves within a mile of 
the sample pasture which, for the most part, consisted of shrubs in or ad- 
joining apple or cherry orchards. The grove adjoining the sample pasture 
included about 10 cherry trees in an adjacent commercial planting. 
Table 1. — Relative abundance of various species of beetles collected in 1938 
Species 
Beetles 
Number 
Percentage of total 
P. rugosa (Melsh. )— - 
9,759 
40.29 
P. hirticula (Knoch) 
6,702 
27.67 
P. fusca (Proel.) 
4,845 
20.00 
P. prunina (Lee.) 
73S 
3.05 
P. implicita (Horn) 
597 
2.47 
P. tristis (P.) 
502 
2.07 
P. balia (Say) 
269 
1.11 
P. drake i (Kby. ) 
246 
1.02 
P. ilicis (Enoch) 
211 
.87 
P. futilis (Lee.) 
135 
• 55 
P. nit i da (Lee.) 
117 
.48 
P. crenulata (Proel.) 
39 
.16 
P. marginal is (Lee.) — . 
IS 
,07 
P. anwia (Lee.) 
18 : .07 
P, spreta (Korn)- 
10 
.04 
P. inversa (Horn) 
7 
,03 
P. villifrons (Lee.) — 
2 
.01 
P. forsteri (3urm. ) 
3 
.01 
P. sp. 
3 
.Oil 
Total 
24,221 
99.9s 
