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after emergence started, so divided the brood and interfered with egg 1 
that the injury is not proving to be as much as anticipated. However, many 
sugar beets are being sprayed and some.' injury is occurring to alfalfa and certaij 
truck" crops. The sugar beet webwom (L. sticticalis L . ) is appearing in 
large numbers. The injury from larva is just beginning to be noticeable. It 
will be quite general on sugar beets in the eastern half of the state and reportf 
indicate that spinach, lettuce and certain other high altitude vegetable crops 
are going to suffer. 
Utah. G. 3F. Knowlton (June 21): Sugar beet webworn moths are becoming alarmingly 
abundant in many localities. Because of the serious injury caused last year, 
many formers are requesting information. 
WHITE GRUBS ( Phyllo-phaga spp.) 
.Connecticut. W. E. Britton (June 23):. Adults of P. tristis Eab. were abundant, 
with an occasional P. fuse a Fro el . feeding upon the .leaves of raspberry at 
Orange , 
New York. P. M. Eastman (June 16): A farmer writes that the ground is full of the 
grubs. Potatoes are being eaten up. 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (June 22): P. futilis Lee. and P. hirticula Knock are attack- 
ing elms and oaks in Baltimore County.. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (June 24): White grubs are less serious than usual. Emergence 
of beetles is fairly heavy in central Missouri. 
A. E. Satterthwait (May): The manager of Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, on May 
27 reported defoliation of sweet-gum and of pin: oak trees. The sample beetles 
sent were P. micans Knoch. 
ASIATIC GARTEN BEETLE ( Autoserica castanea Arrow) 
New York. C. H. Kadley (June 23): The first adults on Long Island in 1935 were 
found at Jericho on June 19. This has been the most destructive insect in 
vegetable gardesn in Nassau County this spring, severe injury having been caused 
during May and June to many vegetables in gardens ~oy the feeding of the larvae . 
Approximately 80 percent of the vegetables (including transplanted cabbave, 
peppers, and tomatoes) in a lar.re community garden at Glen Cove were destroyed 
in soite of replanting efforts. The greatest injury lias occurred in gardens in 
the northern half of Nassau County which were in sod last year, but several 
gardens which have been well cultivated for several years also suffered severe 
loss of vegetables. . 
ASIATIC BEETLE ( Anomala orientalis Waterh.) 
Connecticut. 7. S. Britton (June 23): A. orientalis continues to injure untreated 
lawns. Adult beetles are now emerging. Reverted at New Haven. 
JAPANESE S--RICA ( Scric u similis Lewis) 
New York. C. H. Hadley (June 23): S. a lv.il is was observed at Mill Neck, June 15 
to 19,. when adults were taken in the traps which. -had been placed to c 
Japanese beetles. This gives a new distributional record for tl . The 
adults have been quite abundant at lights on war.-, nights at WesSroa 
