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Straits Settlements. Papulospora sp., possibly P. coprophila which was found 
apparently responsible for a rot of onion from Mexico, was intercepted at El Paso 
in March 1940 on garlic from Mexico. Phoma sp., an undescribed species previ- 
ously intercepted from Syria, was taken at El Paso on October 1939 on Sechium 
edulis in baggage from Mexico. Phoma sp., unlike any of the species described 
on the host, was intercepted at San Francisco in June 1939 on Euphorbia sp. in 
mail from Mozambique. Phomopsis sp., no species reported on host, was inter- 
cepted at San Francisco in January 1940 on Paeonia moutan in cargo from Japan. 
Sclerotium sp., sclerotia forming all over the ferns but without evident injury, 
was found at San Francisco in February 1940 on Nephrodium glahratum in mail 
from New Zealand. Sphaerulina sp., no species reported on host, was intercepted 
at Seattle in December 1939 on Paeonia moutan from Japan. Vermicularia sp., 
no species reported on host, was intercepted at San Francisco in June 1939 on 
Caralluma sp. in mail from Mozambique. 
.Ten of these seventeen fungi were found on plant material offered for entry 
under special permit, for propagation. 
While thousands of incompletely determined interceptions of plant disease 
and related organisms are never recorded, a total of 8,950 were recorded during 
the year. 
Geographic summary of interceptions listed in main table and interception totals 
Country 
Insects 
Diseases 
Country 
Insects 
Diseases 
Africa: 
Angola 
British East Africa 
Egypt 
Number 
4 
1 
8 
1 
1 
14 
1 

1 
2 
72 
4 
1 


1 
12 
1 
13 

213 
4 
2 
3 
1 
1 
2 
1 
8 
1 
1 
43 
8 

4 
30 
1 
5 
302 
24 
91 
1 
3 
97 
9 
8 
25 
4 
Number 


2 


8 

4 


4 
1 

1 
3 

10 
c 
2 
19 
52 

1 
2 
1 

1 

4 



7 
1 
1 
4 


30 
5 
25 


39 
19 
1 
6 
11 
Europe— Continued. 
Italy 
Malta 
Netherlands 
Norway 
Number 
128 

89 
1 
7 
21 
6 
45 
6 
7 
7 
8 
1 
1 
10 
13 
2 

1 
1 
13 
10 
52 
24 
6 
15 
2 
8,074 
3 
4 
5 
10 
2 
1 
383 
5 
11 
2 
2 
1 
6 
51 
1 
38 
1 
2 
33 

Number 
75 
1 
482 
Italian Somaliland 
4 
Liberia 
Morocco 
Poland 
Portugal 
1 
11 
St. Helena 
Rumania- 
7 
Sierra Leone 
Scotland 

Spain 
27 
Tanganyika 
Sweden 
1 
Switzerland. 
3 
West Africa 
Turkey 
3 
Wales - 

Asia: 
Afghanistan. 
Yugoslavia 

North America: 
Bermuda 
7 
Canada 
5 
China 
British Columbia 
Nova Scotia 
Prince Edward Island 
Central America: 
British Honduras 
Canal Zone-.. . .. 

Cyprus- 
1 
India 

Iran _ . _ 
Japan 

Manchuria 

Costa Rica 
Palestine 
Guatemala 
Straits Settlements 
Syria. __ _ . _ 
12 
Honduras 
6 
Nicaragua 
Taiwan 

Panama 
Thailand 
Salvador.. . .. .. 

Australasia: 
American Samoa... . ._ 
Mexico.. - 
539 
1 
Australia 
West Indies: 
American Virgin 
Cook Islands 
Fiji Islands 

Hawaii- _- _ 
A ntipfna 
1 
Java _ 
2 
New South Wales 
Barbados 

New Zealand __ _. 
British West Indies.. 
Cuba 

Philippines -._ ... 
204 
Tonga Islands 

Europe: 
Dominican RepubUc. 
Dutch West Indies. -- 
Grenada ... ... 
1 


Denmark 
Guadeloupe 

England 
Haiti 
2 
Jamaica .. .. 
9 
Finland 
Martinique. . ... 

France 
Puerto Rico.. .. . 
13 
Germany 
St. Kitts 

Greece 
St. Vincent 
1 
Hungary 
Trinidad 
1 
Ireland... 
■ Virgin Islands 
1 
