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• JAPAiraSE B^JTLS ( Popillia japonica ITewm. ) 
Ihe earliest emergence of adult Japanese beetles for the season was 
recorded on May 23 at Andalusia, Pa., when a single specimen was collected 
in an outdoor nursery frame. Three beetles were collected on May 30 near 
Chester, Pa., having been discovered on weeds in a hollow along a creek. 
These recoveries were of beetles which had overwintered, under particularly 
favorable conditions as to protection from severe weather. Consequently 
their transformation into the adult stage does not represent the normal 
life cycle of the insect in the region of Philadelphia, where the mass 
emergence of the beetle will not occur until late in June or early in 
July. 
MEXICAN FRUIT FLY ( Anastropha ludens Loew) 
Following the finding of an infestation of the fruit fly in fruit 
held in storage near Mission, Tex., on April 22, an intensive effort 
was made to locate and thoroughly examine all fruit held in storage with- 
in the quarantined area. 
Additional infestations in fruit growing locally in Matamoros were 
found during the month, bringing the total number of infested premises 
to 12. On April 15, larvae of the fruit fly were found feeding in half- 
grown fruit of S argent i a greggii , one of the sapotes. Larvae were also 
taken from fruit of the white sapote, Casimiro a edulis , of which there 
are 5 trees growing in Matamoros. 
DATS SCALE ( Parlatoria blanchardi Targ. ) 
During the month of Kay, 33,347 palms were inspected and a single 
Parlatoria scale was found. This specimen proved to be dead. Daring 
the past six months the routine inspectors have found only 3 infested 
palms; on 2 of these dead scale only was found. The scout inspectors, 
inspecting small plantings, ornamentals, etc., have located 21 infested 
palms during the same period, 12 in the Coachella Valley, 7 in the 
Imperial Valley, and 2 in the Yuma Valley. Sixteen of these palms were 
of no value and were dug out and destroyed; the remaining 5 were 
defoliated and torched. In the corresponding six months a year ago 180 
infested palms were found. 
A TEMPS ( Franklirdella helianth i Moulton) 
An interception of a sotol bloom stalk (D asylirion sp. ) at Presidio, 
Tex., on March 22, 1931, bearing thrips, was submitted to J. R. Watson, 
of Gainesville, Fla. , who determined it as this species and further 
remarked: "This is an interesting lot, as it is the first time it has 
been recorded outside of California, from where it was described. This 
is also a new host plant and a decidedly different host plant than that 
from which it was described, namely, sunflowers. I suppose you have no 
data as to what part of Mexico this came from." Inquirv from R. B. 
Lattimore, at Presidio, as to the Mexican origin of the host material, 
