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EUROPEAN EAMIG ( Eprf icula auricular in L*) 
Montana. H. B. Mills (July 30 ): Attacking flowers and gardens at Thompson Palls, 
Sanders County. Also reported from Lincoln County, hut no specimens seen. 
Both counties in the northwestern part of Montana. Pirst record of this 
pest in Montana. 
Utah. G. P, Knowlton (August 12): Causing much annoyance in houses and entering 
fruits and ears of com at Parmington, Davis County. Numerous complaints 
received. 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (’August IS): More calls for information received than 
usual at Yakima. The fact that the last two winters have been mild has 
possibly caused a greater abundance. 
WHITE GRUBS ( Phyllophaga spp.) 
Kentucky. M. L. Didlake (August 25): Counts, made in several bluegrass pastures 
during August, show that 1939 was a favorable year for the establishment 
of white grubs following the heavy beetle flight in the spring. Population 
range from 150,000 to 200,000 per acre, and some damage to sod is becoming 
noticeable. 
GREEN JUNE BEETLE ( Cotinis nitida L. ). 
Kentucky, M. L. Didlake (August 25): Peaches and grapes damaged during the first 
part of August. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (July 29 ): Reports of this beetle as feeding on the leaves 
and fruit of peaches and other fruit 'trees received ‘from Arkansas City and 
Topeka. 
W I REWORMS (Elateridae) 
Louisiana. 0, T. Deen (July 3): Several larvae of Horistonotus sp. (possibly H, 
~4hl er i Horn) found attacking roots of cotton and corn severely at Ringgold, 
Bienville Parish. 
Utah. G. P-. Knowlton (August 2l) : At Hooper one field of tomatoes was reportedly 
one-fourth killed by wireworms* 
California. M. W. Stone (August 23): Damage by the sugar-beet wireworm in a 50- 
acre field of lima beans near. Somis, Ventura County, so severe that only 
half of stand remains. Beanfields in the Oxnard and Camarillo sections 
also damaged. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Pppillja .japonica Newm. ) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (August 22): More abundant than usual in much of the 
area of suburban Boston and in the vicinity of Springfield and West Spring- 
field, in the Connecticut Valley. Very abundant on several of the large 
estates in the Berkshires, particularly in the section of Great Barrington 
and Egremont. 
