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Bur. Ent. & P. Q. Issued July 1935 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LIST OF INTERCEPTED PLANT PESTS, 1934 
(List of Pests Recorded During the Period July 1, 1933, to June 30, 1S34, In- 
clusive, as Intercepted in, on, or with Plants and Plant Products Entering 
United States Territory) 
INTRODUCTION 
This is the fortieth paper of a series issued under various names and at more 
or less irregular intervals and listing intercepted plant pests. The present list 
covers the twenty-first year of the period since the lists were started and includes 
intercepted plant pests for which determinations were received and indexed during 
the period specified, including those intercepted in, on, or with plants and plant 
products (1) imported, (2) offered for but refused entry, (3) held as ships' stores, 
etc., and hence not imported through customs, (4) offered for entry for immediate 
export or for immediate transportation and exportation in bond, and (5) in 
domestic shipments reaching the mainland from Hawaii and Puerto Rico. 
The list is compiled in the Washington office from files maintained here. The 
information summarized was furnished by workers of the Bureau of Plant Quar- 
antine l and collaborators (State and customs officials) of the Bureau. Most 
of the insect determinations are made by specialists of the Bureau and many of 
the plant-disease determinations by specialists of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
The States of California and Florida and the Territory of Hawaii maintain their 
own staffs of specialists and make many of their own determinations. Frequently 
the intercepted material is in a stage that is not determinable or is too badly dam- 
aged or is inadequate for determination. Many times the only organisms recog- 
nized are innocuous. Such interceptions, numbering some thousands, are omitted 
from the list. 
As pointed out in previous lists of interceptions, statement as to the origin of 
fruits and vegetables carried as ships' stores, as well as of plants used for decora- 
tive purposes and of plant material carried by passengers, cannot always be veri- 
fied, but every effort is made to give the origin of such plants and plant products 
as accurately as possible. 
FRUIT FLIES 
The following fruit flies were intercepted: Acidia sp. (pupa) in a celery leaf 
from England; 2 Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens) in lime, mango, orange, sour 
orange, and sweet lime from Mexico; Central American fruit fly {A. striata) in 
guava from Mexico: Anastrepha sp. in jobo from American Virgin Islands, orange 
from Brazil, mango from Ecuador and Haiti, sapodilla and sapote from Guate- 
mala, mango and star-apple from Honduras, hog plum, mango, and vi-apple from 
Jamaica, guava, mamey, mango, orange, peach, pear, pomegranate, quince, and 
sapote from Mexico, cherimoya and mango from Panama, guava and mango from 
Puerto Rico, grapefruit, nispero, and orange from Trinidad, and custard-apple 
from the West Indies; melon fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae) in cucumber from Hawaii; 
Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceraiitis cipitata) in apple, loquat, orange, and sorbe 
apple, and in sawdust packing around sorbe apples from Azores, coffee and mango 
from Hawaii, fig, sour orange, and tangerine from Italy, apple, grape, orange, and 
peach, and (pupae) on shelf of fruit locker on which was the debris of grapes and 
apples from Spain; Ceratitis sp. in loquat from the Azores, orange from Brazil, 
peach from France, Opuntia sp. and tangerine from Italy; olive fruit fly (Dacus 
oleae) in olive from Greece and in olive and in bag containing green olives from 
Italy; Dacus sp. in olive and in package containing olives from Italy; apple 
maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella) in apple from Mexico; R. cerasi in dry sour cherry 
1 The Bureau of Plant Quarantine and the Bureau of Entomology were consolidated, effective July 1, 
1934, to form the present Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
* For details of interceptions mentioned in the text see lists under the countries named. 
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