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ASIATIC GARDEN BEETLE 1 
The area of heaviest infestation by the Asiatic garden beetle 
( Autoserica castanea Arrow) was found on Long Island in Nassau and Queens 
Counties. . An- area of continuous infestation occurred around New York City 
in New York and New Jersey covering the western end of Long Island as far 
east as. the eastern border of Nassau County, the southern portion of 
Westchester County, and in New Jersey the counties of Bergen, part of 
Passaic, Hudson, Essex, Union, and a small part of the north end of" 
Middlesex and Monmouth. There were also outlying infestations at New 
London, New Haven, Cromwell, Manchester, Mansfield, New Canaan, and 
Southport, Conn.; Kingston, Pi shkill, Babylon, PatchpgTi& ,• *.' Brookhaven, 
Amawalk and Mt. Kisco, N. Y. ; Riverton, Paliryra, Hammonton, Aliens, and 
Cedar Grove, N. J.; Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa.; Milford and Winter thur, 
Del.; Frederick and New Church, Md. ; East Palls Church, Va. ; and Washington, 
D. C. 
A SCARABAEID 
During the fall of this year reports from widely scattered localities 
in the Eastern States were received complaining of the damage done to 
golf greens, fairways, and private la^s by the larvae of the scarabaeid 
beetle Qchrosidea villosa Burm. In soire cases the roots were so completely 
cut from the sod that it could be rolled up by hand. Among the reports 
received this year was one from Washington, D. C. ; one from Bay side, 
Long Island; another at Lawrence, N. Y.; and a third at Woodmere, N. Y. 
Some 3 acres of lawn were also ruined on an estate near South Norwalk, 
Conn. This insect has been observed as a pest of lawns and golf greens 
in previous years. In 1908 it was reported from Middle town, Pa., and in 
1930 it was reported as damaging golf greens in Sacramento, Calif. The 
insect is known to occur over practically the entire United States, having 
been reported from New York to California and southward to Alabama. 
GLADIOLUS THRIPS. 
During July, August, September, and October considerable alarm -'as 
caused in the cut-flower producing sections of Massachusetts, New York, 
Pennsylvania, and Ohio by the appearance of the gladiolus thrips 
( Taeniothrins gladioli Moulton) appearing in such numbers that buds and 
blossoms "ere ruined and leaves badly browned by its feeding, the damage 
occurring both in field-grown and greenhouse material. This insect was so 
prevalent in northern Ohio that several large growers were unable to 
exhibit at the National Gladiolus sho^- a t Cleveland. Another thrins 
(T. atratus mo nt anus Hal. ) ^as collected at Longmeadow, Mass., on 
gladiolus bulbs. This is a common European soecies that has not heretofore 
been recorded from North America. In Europe it feeds on a ~"ide variety of 
plants, including asters, primroses, mullein, s^eet clover, and scabiosa. 
1 H. C. Hallock, Burenu of Entomology, U. S. D. A. 
