The serious outbreaks of white grubs that have occurred in northeastern Iowa during the past ten years are part of a general outbreak appearing in a number of more or less timbered areas in a belt running from Minnesota and Iowa east to New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. These grubs first appeared in unusual number in 1909, increased in severity in 1912 and reached a climax of injury in 1915. In 1918 the damage was considerably less than in the previous outbreak and it is probable that the parasites and other enemies of the grubs will reduce their numbers to a nearly normal amount by 1921 or 1924 at the latest.