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PLAINS FALSE WIREWORM- ( Eleodes opaea Say) - 
Nebraska* M. H, Swenk (June 20): Adults were reported as very abundant in 
Chase and Box Butte Counties' on June 8 and 12, respectively, ' The Box 
Butte County correspondent- stated that they were so abundant at night on 
the road about 4 miles west of Alliance that a truckload of them could 
have been shoveled up in a mile. 
ASIATIC GARDEN -BEETLE ( Autoserica castanea Arrow) 
New York. H« C, Hallock (June 23): Larvae have been found in gardens that 
were cultivated last year. They are destroying beets, carrots, corn, 
squash, lettuce, and asters. It was necessary to replant at Larchmont, 
Oyster Bay, Locust "Valley, Port Washington, and Great Neck. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia japonica Newm.) 
New Jersey, C, H, Hadley (June 12): The Japanese beetle season has started. 
General field emergence of the adults from the ground started at Moo res- 
town on June 11, On that day a number of beetles were found in the field, 
ROSE CHAFER ( Macrodactylus subs pinosus Fab,) 
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Maine, H. B, Peirson (June 20) : The rose chafer is abundant at Augusta and 
is feeding on elms at Saco. 
Connecticut, M, P. Zappe (June 14): Adults are unusually numerous and de- 
structive to plum, grape, and apple foliage and fruit in the eastern 
part of the State and to corn at New London, 
New York, N, Y, State Coll, Agr, News Letter (June ): The rose chafer ap- 
peared the first week in the month in the Hudson River Valley and did con- 
siderable damage during the second week of the month in this region and 
in Niagara County, 
New York, P, J. Parrot (June 25): M. subspinosus is very abundant in some 
places in the western part of the State, 
New Jersey. I. M. Eawley (June 11): The rose chafer is numerous, beetles 
are entirely destroying roses in ornamental gardens, 
Maryland, E, N, Cory (June 21): There is a heavy infestation at Cambridge, 
Indiana, J, J, Davis (June 22): The rose chafer was reported on June 2 as 
damaging" peaches at Goshen, 
Michigan, E, I. McDaniel (June 14) : The first rose chafers in the vicinity 
of lansing appeared about June 12, They were feeding on apples in a 
large orchard. In other years they have been very destructive to 
peonies and roses, 
Ray Hut so 11 (June 22): The rose chafer is causing some damage to corn 
at Okemos, and is attacking fruit trees at Williamsburg. 
Wisconsin. E, L. Chambers (June 25): Rose chafers are appearing in destruc- 
tive numbers in Monroe, Jackson, and Waushara Counties, where they are 
injuring flowers, garden crops, and field corn over large areas of light 
sandy soil. 
