428 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



of the gipsy moth from France and Belgium, raspberry sawfly from 

 France and England, the gold-tail moth from Holland, an unde- 

 scribed weevil in avocado seeds from Guatemala, a flat-head borer in 

 chestnut from Japan, 16 nests of " white tree Pierid " from France, 

 and numerous scale insects from various quarters of the globe. 



No less than 130 specific diseases of which the causative organism 

 was identified were collected on imported plants. Some of the more 

 important interceptions were citrus canker on pomelo from China, 

 the so-called pineapple disease on sugar-cane from China, sclerotia 

 in radish seed from Japan, and parasitic nematodes in the roots of 

 fig from Spain, Iris from China, and Pimenta seed from Mauritius. 



INSPECTION AT PLANT INTRODUCTION GARDENS. 



All plant material distributed from Yarrow, Md., was repeatedly 

 examined throughout the year, and a large percentage of it was also 

 inspected at the time of shipment. All material shipped from Miami 

 and Brooksville, Fla., was examined at the time of distribution, and 

 all material for distribution at Chico, Cal., was examined at the time 

 of digging by collaborators of the board. 



PINEAPPLE AND BANANA INSPECTION IN HA WAIL 



In connection with the fruit fly quarantine of Hawaii, a total 

 of 256,855 bunches of bananas, 12,875 crates of pineapples, 190 lots of 

 coconuts, and 49 crates of taro were inspected for fruit and melon 

 fly infestation and certified for shipment to the mainland. 



REGULATORY INVESTIGATIONS. 



The regulatory investigations conducted by the board during this 

 fiscal year have had relation to a new and important lepidopterous 

 insect enemy of stone fruits, Laspeyr^esia molesta^ probably intro- 

 duced into several places in this country with flowering cherry trees 

 from Japan; and, in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology, 

 inspections to determine the further spread of the gipsy and brown- 

 tail moths in relation to the quarantine of the area infested by these 

 insects, and some explorations in Mexico to determine the distribu- 

 tion in that country of the pink bollworm, and similar surveys in 

 Texas in relation to the same insect, more fully discussed elsewhere 

 in this report. 



LIST OF CURRENT QUARANTINE AND OTHER RESTRICTIVE 



ORDERS. 



QUARANTINE ORDERS. 



The numbers assigned to these quarantines indicate merely the chronological 

 order of issuance of both domestic and foreign quarantines in one numerical 

 series. The quarantine numbers missing in this list are quai-antines which 

 have either been superseded or revoked. For convenience of reference these 

 quarantines are here classified as domestic and foreign. 



DOMESTIC QUAEANTINES. 



Date palms. — Quarantine No. 6, with regulations: Prohibits the interstate 

 movement of date palms or date-palm offshoots from Riverside County. Cal., 

 east of the San Bernardino meridian ; Imperial County. Cal. ; Yuma, Maricopa, 

 and Pinal Counties, Ariz. ; and Webb County, Tex, ; except in accordance with 



