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days. Use of bait has "been particularly heavy in the southwestern and 
western third of the State, although large quantities have "been used 
throughout, the entire winter wheat-growing section. 
Oklahoma. C. E, Stiles (September IS): Grasshoppers are congregating in 
most places and depositing eggs. However, on the west side of the State 
they are doing serious damage to fall-planted wheat. Alfalfa is also 
being seriously damaged in some of the. central counties. Considerable 
poisoning' is being done in the western counties. The species most common 
are M. different ialis and M. mexicanus . 
Utah. C. J. Sorenson (September 20): M. femur-rub rum is very abundant in 
Millard, Cache, and Box Elder Counties. M. packardii Scudd. is very abun- 
dant in Sanpete, Cache,, Juab, and Millard Counties. M« biyittatus is very 
abundant in Sanpete, and M. mexicanus in Tooele, Millard, and Juab Counties. 
Camnula pellucida Scudd. is very abundant in Tooele County, 
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G. F. Knowlton (September 10): Grasshoppers are more abundant in 
most parts of Cache County than they have been for several years. They 
are damaging alfalfa seriously in North Earmington, east of Lay ton, -and 
southwest of Salt Lake City, in northern Utah. Eight hundred acres of 
alfalfa and several thousand acres of range land were heavily infested 
on ranches along Indian Creek, in San Juan County. 
WIREW0RM5 (Elateridae) 
Pennsylvania. M, D. Leonard (September 22): Reported to have been very -in- 
jurious to various vegetable crops, especially tomatoes," in Chester County 
this summer. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (September 17) I A survey has been conducted in 
potato fields in Traill, Grand Forks, Walsh, and Pembina. Co\mties. Some 
fields show only a small percentage of the tubers injured, while others 
in nearby areas show injury as high as 6S percent. The most serious in- 
festations have been found in the Hopple and Crystal vicinities of Walsh 
and Pembina Counties, The predominating species appears to be Ludius 
aereipennis Kby. 
Washington. E. W. Jones (September 23) ' Linonius canus Lee, was found to be 
damaging fall spinach and lettuce early in September at Walla Walla. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Po-oillia japonica Newm. ) 
Connecticut. W. E. Britton (September 23): Several cases of rather severe 
grub injury to lawns have come to our attention. Heretofore most of the 
damage has been caused by the adults to foliage and flowers. Adults have 
been received for identification from Greenwich, New Haven, and Woodmont, 
and several lots of larvae from New Haven. 
New Jersey. C. H. Hadley (August): Heretofore feeding by beetles on the fruit 
of grapes has not been observed, and it was thought that such feeding did 
not occur. However, on August 13, extensive feeding by beetles on bunches 
of grapes was observed in a vineyard at Holmdel. 
