1060 PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



The effect of this Ord^r on the various classes of Plaut Imports is 

 shown in the Table on next page. 



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

 amount to this : — 



(1) There is no restriction on the importation b}' land or sea of 



seeds other than seeds of coSee, flax, bersrm and cotton. 



(2) There is no restriction on the importation of any 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 checking 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, rubber plants, coffee-plants and seeds, 



flax seed, bersim seed and cotton seed are only admitted 

 subject to special restrictions. 



(6) All other hving plants are only admitted through specified 



ports of entry after fumigation. 



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



British India (e.g.. from Calcutta to Rangoon) 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 

 their wilUngness to cooperate by introducmg the necessary restrictions 

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

 articles will not be despatched from the Portuguese Customs House 

 until they have been examined by an expert ofiicer of the Agricultural 

 Inspecting Department, such preventive measures bemg taken as may 

 be considered necessary. The French ports, I imderstand, propose to 

 adopt restrictions similar to our own. Travancore proposes to confine 

 the importation of plants to the port of Alleppey. 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, 



