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'1HITE GRUBS ( Phyllophag a spp. ) 
C. H. Hadley and assistants, Japanese Beetle Laboratory 
(August ): Approximately 500 square feet of lawn have been 
destroyed by Phyllophaga sp. (native) in Hampstead. 
R. 3. Lott (August 31); White grubs are moderately abundant 
at Eatontown. 
J. R. St ear (September 23): White grubs are scarce 
in Ligonier. No injury observed this season. Digging in 11 
scattered sod plots, totalling 176 square feet, yielded 256 
grab s . 
M. H. Swenk (September 21): White grubs were scarce to 
moderately abundant in southeastern Nebraska. 
H. E. Jaques (September 24): White grubs are apparently 
much scarcer than usual except in the middle western part of 
the State. 
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WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
C. R. Phipps (September 24): Wireworms are moderately abundant, 
attacking potatoes in various parts of the State. 
H. R. Bryson (September 23); Wireworms are reported doing 
damage- to corn at Madison. 
K. L. Cockerham (August 27 and 28): Recent scouting has 
revealed the presence of Keterodeires la.urer.tii G-uer. in two 
additional counties. On August, 27 Mr. 0. T. Been collected 
adults near Neoly in Green County, Miss., and on August 28 near 
Leroy in Washington County, Ala. 
N. L. Douglass (September): Wireworms have been found 
damaging sweetpotatoes "oy boring holes through them in 
Yalobusha and Grenada Counties. 
MOURNING CLOAK: BUTTERFLY ( Aglais antiopa L. ) 
W. J. Buckhorn (July 27 to August 1): There are comities s 
numbers of mourning cloak butterflies flying at present south 
of the Medford-Anna Springs Highway and west of- the Ft. Klamath 
Highway. They always fly into the wind and shift their course 
whenever the wind does. Large numbers alight on the Abies 
magn i f ica . They seem to draw something from the lower part 
of the needles as they run their probosces around them. 
