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half of Nassau County on Lone: Island. Although adults are still 
to "be found in the field, they are scarce. 
Daring the month a total of 139 soil surveys of one square 
foot each were made at Chestnut Hill, Pa. An average of 8 grubs 
to the square foot was found with a range of to 93. 
ASIATIC BEETLE ( Anomala orientalis Waterh. ) 
Connecticut H. B. Friend (October 24): Several lawns in the Westville 
section showed severe injur;* this month, but in the center of 
the infested area the insect is less abundant. A severe 
infestation appeared this year about !§■ miles outside the 
quarantined area. The insect is not spreading rapidly. 
Hew York C. E. Hadley and assistants (U.S.D.A. Japanese Beetle Laboratory) 
(September): The turf injur*' at Jericho, reported in August has 
spread so that it now covers about three-fourths of an acre. 
The grubs have also attacked a strawberry bed ( appro ximately 
2,000 square feet in size) at the same place a,nd destroyed 60 
per cent of the plants. 
JAPAI-73SE BEETLE ( Popillia japonica ITewm. ) 
Hew Jersey C. H. Hadley and assistants (U. S.D. A. , .Japanese Beetle Laboratory 
and (September): Comprehensive soil surveys made in golf courses 
Pennsylvania at Moorestown, H. J., and Jenkintown, Pa., show that the grub 
infestation is devinitely heavier than it was this past spring. 
Field work on the distribution of the adult Japanese beetle was 
continued during the first week of September, during which time 
the region extending from Hew Brunswick north to Hackensack, 
Pater son, and Hewark was scouted. The results obtained indicated 
the extension northward of the region of continuous occurrence 
as far as Plainfield and Metuchen, and beyond these points, the 
presence of usually highly localized colonies of the beetle in 
many of the cities and towns occupying the belt of low country 
east of the Watchung Mountains. 
A SCABABAEID BEETLE ( Ochrosidi a villo sa Burm. ) 
Hew York C. H. Hadley and assistants (U.S.D.A., Japanese Beetle Laboratory 
(September): Ochrosidia villosa ; In the fairways of a golf 
club at Bayside, 1". Y. , approximately 1 acre of turf was destroyed. 
The rained turf was in irregular spots which were widely separated 
in different parts of the course. At Lawrence, H.Y. , one-fourth 
of B2. aero of lawn turf was entirely destroyed so that dead 
brown sod could be easily rolled back. At Woodmere, H.Y. , 300 
square feet of lawn was ruined. 
