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Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (Juno 22): Prom Dixon and Butler Counties, in 
eastern Nebraska, on June 17, there cane reports of white grubs 
destroying the roots of strawberry plants that had been set out 
this year, 
Kansas. H, R. Bryson (June 6): White grubs were reported to be in- 
jurious to s trawberries at Wellsville and to pasture and neadow 
grass near Junction City. (June 22): Adults of £. lanceolata 
Say have been unusually abundant on the high prairie land the 
entire month of June in the vicinity of Manhattan. Many of the 
beetles are parasitized. 
Oklahoma. F. A. Fenton (June 23): P. lanceolata reported present at 
Ncwkirk, Jet, and Blackwell, in the north-central part of the State. 
R. G. Dahms (June 23): Adults of P. lanceolata have been reported 
doing serious damage to young cotton plants in a few cases in south- 
western Oklahoma. 
Texas. 0. G. Babcock and E. R, Lawrence (June 17): White grubs were re- 
ported as causing serious injury to pastures in some locations in 
Crockett County, north-central Texas. The grass was killed in spots 
ranging from 10 to 75 feet across. At a depth of 7 to 8 inches 
grubs were found at the rate of U to S per square foot. Mature 
beetles were identified ns P. glabricula Lee, by H. J. Reinhard . 
White grubs were also reported as seriously injuring pasture land 
in Bosque County. 
Utah. G. P. Knowlton (June 20): White grubs destroyed the marketability 
of 70 acres of potatoes in 1937 • near Panguitch, south-central Utah. 
Grubs of various sizes are abundant in soil now planted to potatoes, 
alfalfa, and garden truck, in this area. The beetles were abundant 
during the past ten days, 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Pppillia japonica Newm. ) 
Connecticut, J. P. Johnson (June 20): The earliest emergence record for 
this State for the adult occurred this year at Bridgeport, on June 
20, Results of soil surveys for grub development- indicate an early 
emergence in considerable numbers. 
New Y«rk. T. N. Dobbins (June 21): Larval development was retarded 
by the unusually cloudy and cool weather which characterized May 
and the greater part of June. In the New York City metropolitan 
area beetles were picked up on June 21, with indications that 
general emergence will be several days later than normal. 
New Jersey. T f N. Dobbins (June 21): Beetles 'were picked up in the 
field, in southern New Jersey, on June lU, 
