10(50 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



The efiect of this Order on the various classes of Plant Imports is 

 shown in the Table on next paga. 



Eoughly speaking, so far as insect pests are concerned, the regulations 

 amount to this : — 



(1) There is no restriction on the importation by land or sea of 



seeds other than seeds of coffee, flax, bersim and cotton. 



(2) There is no restriction on the imjjortatiou of an3- plants what- 



ever through the land frontiers of India except through the 

 letter or sample post. It is not considered that there is any 

 great danger of new pests being brought in along the ordinary 

 trade routes across the frontiers of Northern India and 

 Burma. 



(3) No plants, except seeds other than those specified above, may 



be sent into India by letter or sample post. This regulation 

 is enforced because the contents of letters and sample packets 

 are not declared by the senders and there is therefore no 

 regular means of checkmg their contents. 



(4) Fruits and vegetables (except potatoes) intended for consump- 



tion are admitted without restriction except by letter or 

 sample post. 



(5) Potatoes, sugarcane, nibber plants, coffee-plants and seeds, 



flax seed, hershn seed and cotton seed are only admitted 

 subject to special restrictions. 



(6) All other Hving plants are onlj' admitted through sjiecified 



ports of entry after fumigation. 



(7) Plants merely sent from one port to another, both being in 



British India (e.g.. from Calcutta to Eangoou) are not 

 subject to any restrictions. 



As regards the land frontiers and Foreign Governments and Native 

 States owning sea-ports in India, the French and Portuguese possessions 

 and the Travancore, Cochin, Baroda and other States have expressed 

 then willingiress to cooperate by introducing the necessary restrictions 

 on plant imports from overseas. In the case of Portiiguese India such 

 articles will not be despatched from the Portuguese Customs House 

 until they have been examined by an expeii: officer of the Agricultural 

 Inspecting Department, such preventive measures being taken as mav 

 he considered necessary. The French ports, I understand, propose to 

 adopt restrictions similar to our own. Travancore proposes to confine 

 the importation of plants to the port of AUejipey. Junagadh State 

 issued an Order in May 1918 on the same lines as the British India 

 Notification, fumigation to be at the port of entry. Cambay, Sachin. 



