and treated twice for the destruction of insects before reaching South Africa. 

 This shows how easily a formidable pest might be introduced into a country 

 were drastic precautions not exercised. 



1924 - Fletcher, T. B. The American cotton boll weevil--A menace to India. Pusa, 

 India. Rpt. Proc. Fifth Ent. Meet., 1923:58-64. Calcutta. 



Owing to the possibility of the American cotton boll weevil obtaining a 

 footing in India, attention is drawn to its habits and to the enormous loss it 

 causes to the cotton crop in America. The probability of its introduction into 

 India has been accentuated recently by the large importations of American cotton. 



1924 - Jacobsen, W. C. Bureau of Plant Quarantine and Pest Control. Calif. Dept. Agr. 

 Mo. B. 13(7-12):156-161. 



"During the year additional border inspection stations were opened at which 

 cotton seed, cotton bolls and other carriers of the cotton boll weevil (A. grandis) 

 were frequently intercepted." 



1924 - Urbabus, T. D. Field Entomology. Calif. Dept. Agr. Mo. B. 12(7- 12): 1 61- 164. 



" Anthonomus grandis (cotton boll weevil) has not yet been found in California." 



1925 - Anonymous. Proceedings of the sixth conference Western Plant Quarantine Board, 



Denver, Colorado, May 10-24, 1924. Calif. Dept. Agr., Spec. Pub. 54, 100 p., 

 Sacramento. 



"As a result of road inspections live adults and larvae of A. grandis 

 (Mexican boll weevil) were found in several lots of cotton bolls from infested 

 territory." 



1927 - Anonymous. Libya, decree of September 13, 1926, on importation of plants. 

 Internatl. Rev. Sci., and Pract. Agr. 18(3):T187-T188, Apr. Rome. 



These regulations on the importation of plants into Libya include almost 

 identical prohibitions to the Italian ones regarding insects. The importation of 

 plants and seeds of cotton from the United States, Mexico, Central American 

 countries, and Egypt is prohibited against Anthonomus grandis. 



1927 - Anonymous. Quarantine proclamation, No. 176. Austral. Commonwealth Gaz. 

 No. 125, reprint 1 p., Nov. Melbourne. 



The importation into Australia of cottonseed or cotton lint is prohibited 

 except that cottonseed for planting may be imported at Brisbane only and by 

 permission of the Minister of Health, and cottonseed, imported for crushing into 

 oil and meal, must have originated in a country where pink bollworm, or the 

 Mexican boll weevil are known not to exist. Raw cotton may be landed only at 

 Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Launceston, or any port, other than at 

 Queensland, approved by the minister, and must be disinfected before being 

 released from quarantine. 



1929 - Panteleev, A. M. The organization of quarantine to prevent the introduction from 

 abroad of pests of cotton into U.S.S.R. (In Russian). Khlopkonoe Delo 8(12): 

 1437-1455. 



The economic importance of the Mexican cotton boll weevil is briefly 

 discussed, and notes are given on the history of the organization of the quarantine 

 service in Russia, which was inaugurated in 1914. 



The work carried out in 1929 included further investigations on cotton pests 

 in Persia and the establishment in Central Asia and Transcaucasia of a perma- 

 nent quarantine inspection service. A vacuum apparatus has been ordered for the 

 custom house in Markar for the fumigation of cotton imported from the Igdir 

 region; and preliminary work has been carried out in connection with the 

 organization in Leningrad and Odessa of a service for the disinfection on a large 

 scale of cotton seeds arriving from Egypt and America, especially in view of 

 the fact that in the latter country seeds from areas severely infested with A. 

 grandis are not being disinfected prior to export. 



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