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brought the reply that since it came in a truck and the flowers are 
rather delicate the probability is that it was collected within a. short 
radius from the port, and that search would be made for the parasite in 
the neighborhood. 
The interesting feature in this case is the addition of a new and 
unsuspected species to the known hosts of this tnrips* and it exemplifies 
once again the part so frequently played by our inspection force in 
contributing in an incidental but effective manner to the sum of 
knowledge on insects and diseases. 
