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This infestation probably resulted from illegal transportation oi* infested 
plant material. The infestation at Charlottesville, Va. , can -orobably be 
accounted for in the same way, Beetles were, first found at Charlottesville 
in 1932. This year 50 beetles were trapped in that city. Other first-record 
trappings include 6 beetles taken at Chicago rnd 1 at .East Saint Louis, 111. 
The locations at which the beetles were trapped in Chicago and East Saint 
Loais, point to the probability of these having been transported from the 
heavily infested sections of New Jersey or Pennsylvania vie rail in refriger- 
ator cars containing agricultural •oroducts not ordinarily subject to infes- 
tation. As a result of this season's trapping activities, additional catches 
were recorded in 5 cities in Maine; in 53 Maryland communities, both inside 
and outside the regulated zone; in Detroit, Mich., where a few beetles have 
been trapped each year since 1932; in 9 New York cities; in 6 localities in 
Ohio; at Erie, Pa., where an infestation was first determined in 1931; in 6 
cities in Virginia; and at 7 points in West Virginia. Traps set in Greenville, 
S. C, in an effort to pick uo additional beetles at the site. where 2 beetles 
were collected by hand, failed to catch any further specimens. Practically 
all of the few first-record infestations found in these States consisted of 
a few beetles each. None of them clearly pointed to an established infesta- 
tion. The remaining infestations were largely survivors of known incipient 
infestations which successive years' trappings have shown not to have built 
up. (C H. Hadley and L. H. Worthley, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine, U. S. D. A. ) 
ASIATIC BEETLES 
The known distribution of Anomala orientalis Waterh. has not changed 
from that given in the summary for 1933. The area infested by the Asiatic 
garden beetle ( Autos eric a castanea Arrow), however, has increased somewhat 
in 1934. On Long Island the infestation has moved eastward in Suffolk 
County, and in Westchester County, IT. Y. , and in Fairfield County, Conn., 
the area generally infested has become enlarged. In northeastern New Jersey 
there has likewise been an enlargement of the generally infested area and 
the degree of infestation in this area has been somewhat greater than in 
1933. In all of the infested territory A. castanea has been fully a.s 
destructive to plants as in previous years, and in addition has been decidedly 
a nuisance, because of the large numbers of beetles that collect on warm 
nights in -laces illuminated by high-powered lights. The following records 
of new infestations were made during the year:: Coscob and Danbury, Fairfield 
County, Conn,; Moorestown, Borlington County, Milltown, Middlesex County, 
Allenhurst, Monmouth County, Morristown, Morris County, 3ound Brook, Somerset 
County, and Boselle Park, Union County, N. J.; Dobbs Perry and Valhalla, 
Westchester County, 17. Y. ; and Cheltenham, Montgomery County, Pa. (C. H, • 
Hadley, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
GYPSY MOTH 
The percentage of hatch of egz clusters of the gypsy moth in the spring 
of 1934 was Very variable. The severe cold of the winter of 1933-34 killed 
many eQ^ clusters, but killing cold was not uniform over extended sections of 
the infested area, as considerable hatching of exposed clusters was noted in a 
