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NOTES FROM THE FSDEtAL HORTICULTURAL BC«RD 
IHTERC3PTIOHS ..,./• 
April, 1925 
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The following important interception v?as recently reported "by 
the inspector at Philadelphia. A bundle of broomcorn, manifested 
as whisk "brooms, was found in cargo discharged from the S3. Ossa 
from Italy. Specimens of the European corn borer ( pyrausta 
n ubilalis Hbn. ) were collected' from the shipment which- v;as 
abandoned by the consignee and destroyed. 
On February 14,1925, a collaborator of the Federal Horticultural 
Board found a sack containing several hundred citrus leaves • 
in the suitcase of a passenger arriving at Key West from Cuba, 
The passenger was going to Tampa, Florida, The leaves were 
infested v?ith citrus blackfly. This interception presents a 
striking example of the necessity of close supervision of baggage 
inspection. 
Since the last issue of the letter of Information, determinations 
have been received for interceptions of larvae, pupae, and adult 
oof Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitat a T7ied, ) as follows: 
In commercial shipments of oranges from Spain, taken at Hew York, 
January 19th, 23d, and 26th; in commercial shipments of sour 
oranges from Sicily at Hew York, January 30^-» February 11th and 
17th; in bitter oranges from Italy at Hew York, February 11th, in 
tangerines, Mandarin vqt., arriving at Hew York as cargo from 
Messina, Italy, January 19th; in green olives from passenger's 
baggage from Italy at Hew York, December 6th, 1924, and in quince 
from passenger's baggage from Syria at Providence, £. I, Hovember 
13,1924. 
The }?arvae of the \7est Indian fruit fly ( Anastrepha f r ater cuius 
Wied.) were taken by a Hew York inspector from guavas from Porto 
Rico, December 24, 1924, The guavas were brought in as baggage. 
An unidentified species of Anastreoha was found at Hew York 
February 5il9£5 t infesting mangos from Feru. The mangos 
"ere in ship's stores. 
A very important interception is credited to the Board's 
collabotator at Jacksonville, Florida, who found in the post office 
at Jacksonville and diverted to Washington, L., Cab out February 
1st, a package from Cuba containing cot con bolls. The bools were 
infested with living larvae of the pink bollworro. 
Philop edon p la^iatu s Schallen,, a European weevil of the family 
Otiorhynchidae, v/hich is lot known to occur in this country, was 
taken from vegetable seed arriving by mail at the Inspection House 
