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Kansas. H. R. Bryson (September 23): White grubs'' are moderately abundant. Diggings 
made in lawns, gardens, strawberry beds, and cultivated areas in the vicinity 
of Manhattan revealed the presence of a moderate infestation. Observations 
made in one strawberry bed showed 25 grubs to the square foot. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Ponilli a .japonic a Newm.) 
United States. C. H. Hadley {September 25): The 1933 adult brood decreased 
rapidly in August, so that by the middle of September it persisted in only 
insignificant numbers. The new brood of larvae is now represented by all stages, 
but the third stage is dominant, though younger larvae are more numerous than 
at this time a year ago. In all sections of the beetle's range which had been 
reported as heavily infested previous to 1932, there appears to have been a 
general reduction of the larval -copulation below the level reached at this time 
in 1932. Indications have been found that the area of heaviest infestation, 
which during the past several years has been most strikingly developed in the 
general vicinity of Elmer and Woodstown, New Jersey, has shifted its centre 
southward a distance of about 10 miles and is now most marked in the region 
adjoining Bridgeton and Shiloh. Scouting during the summer showed that the 
region in which Japanese beetles are of practically universal occurrence 
increased to about 8,6C0 square miles, distributed in the States of New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and New York (Staten Island). This represents 
an increase of about 1,000 square miles within the year. Places coinciding 
approximately with the present limits of the area of continuous infestation are, 
in New Jersey, Neward, Morristown, and Chester; in Pennsylvania, Easton, 
Bethlehem, Reading, and Christiana; in Maryland, Elkton, and Chesapeake City; 
and in Delaware, Middletown, Smyrna and the shore of Delaware Bay as far south 
\&s the latitude of Dover. 
Connecticut. J, P. Johnson (September): The Japanese beetle is building up in 
population in all areas where previously found. It can be considered moderate- 
ly abundant in Bridgeport, where feeding can be observed more readily than in 
the year past. It has been found for the first time in Middletown, Manchester, 
and Putnam, being rather numerous in Putnam. 
Delaware. News Letter, Bureau of Plant Quarantine, U.S.D.A. , No. 33 (September l): 
Early in the month a report was received from Reedy Point, near Delaware City, 
Del., on the Delaware River opposite Salem County, IT. J., to the efiect that 
millions of beetles were being washed ashore along the beach. An investigation 
disclosed that quantities of beetles were being washed in with the tide all 
along the nearby beach. Quite an infestation of beetles was observed feeding 
on nearby foliage. Later, complaints were received at the Dover office of 
beetles being washed in at Woodland Beach in lower Delaware. The majority of 
the beetles were dead when washed ashore, but a goodly number of the survivors 
recovered and began feeding. Six traps placed at the Reedy Point bridge 
caught 3-l/2 quarts of beetles in two weeks, and 18 traps set up at Woodland 
Beach collected 7-l/2 quarts. Beetles in considerable quantities have been 
washed ashore along Delaware Bay from Delaware City south to Kitts Hammock, 
a stretch of about 40 miles. 
BUMBLE FLOWER BEETLE ( Euphoria inda L.) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (September 20): Considerable injury to ripening peaches 
reported in vicinity of Brattleboro. 
