NOTES ON INSECTS INTRODUCED INTO MAURITIUS. 175 



Anoplodesmus saussurei. 



Tliis millipede was introduced into the island about 1904-1905, in Wardian cases 

 containing rubber plants imported from Ceylon by an estate situated in Vieux 

 Grand Port district. One year later the writer was in a position to say with 

 certainty that the creatures occupied already the whole mountain range that 

 separates Grand Port district from Flacq, and that the western side was no less 

 infested than the eastern side. 



Conclusion. 



It follows from the above that within the last 20 years, 14 exotic species of insects 

 are known to have been accidentally introduced into this Colony. Of these 14 

 species, two have no significance from an economic standpoint ; the 12 others 

 have already caused considerable damage. 



These facts demonstrate emphatically that the restrictions estabhshed through 

 the Department of Agriculture in 1913, though they may hamper to some extent 

 freedom of importation, fulfil an urgent requirement in protecting the agricultural 

 products of this Colony, which in the past have suffered considerable losses that 

 could have been avoided altogether by the adoption of the measures now in force. 



APPENDIX. 



Ordinance 4 of 1910. 



1. In this Ordinance " article " means any seeds, plants, cuttings, or any 

 package, covering or thing that may have come directly or indirectly from any 

 Country or place named in any Proclamation issued under this Ordinance. 



2. — (A). It shall be lawful for the Governor in Executive Council by Proclamation 

 to prohibit the importation of any articles from any country or place named in such 

 Proclamation which, in his opinion, are likely to be a means of introducing any 

 plant disease from such country or place. 



(B). In like manner the Governor in Executive Council may prescribe the con- 

 ditions under which alone the importation of any articles shall be permitted that 

 may have come directly or indirectly from any country named in such Proclamation. 



3. Any article coming from any country or place the importation from which is 

 prohibited, and any article arriving from a country or place the importation from 

 which is permitted upon certain conditions only, until and unless such conditions 

 shall have been compUed with to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs, shall 

 be deemed to be prohibited goods within the meaning of the Customs Ordinance 

 No. 28 of 1892 ; and any such conditions as aforesaid shaU be deemed to be 

 restrictions within the meaning of the said Ordinance. 



4. So long as any Proclamation as aforesaid is in force any articles mentioned 

 therein coming from parts beyond the sea may be deemed to have come from a place 

 the importation from which is prohibited, and may be treated accordingly, unless 

 the importer satisfies the Collector of Customs to the contrary. 



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