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In making this decision, the Secretary stated, consideration was given to 
the fact that cooperative Federal-State inspection and eradication are under 
waj^ in all infected areas, and it is believed that, at present, the prevention 
of spread of the disease can be handled satisfactorily through State regulatory 
action. 
CUSTOMS REGULATIONS AMENDED— PLANT QUARANTINE (T. D. 48810) 
Article 561 (a) (2), Customs Regulations of 1931, Relating to the Trans- 
mission TO Collectors of Customs by the Importer of Notices of Arijival 
OF Plants or Plant Products, Amended 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Wastn)i(/ton, D. C. 
To Collector's of Customs and Others Concerned: 
Pursuant to the authority contained in section 251, Revised Statutes (U. S. C. 
title 19, sec. 66), and section 624 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (U. S. C. title 19, 
sec. 1624), article 561 (a) (2) of the Customs Regulations of 1931, is hereby 
amended to read as foUovt'S : 
(2) The importer or his representative will submit to the collector at the 
port of first arrival for any type of entry, except rewarehouse and informal 
mail entries, a notice of arrival. For 1. T. shij)ments a second notice will 
be submitted to the collector at the port of destination, and for diverted 
T. & E. shipments a second notice will be submitted to the collector at the 
port at which a change in entry is made. The collector at the port of 
arrival, as well as at destination, will compare the notice which he receives 
from the importer or his representative with the shipping documents, certify 
to its agreement therewith or note any discrepancies, and transmit it to the 
Secretary of Agriculture. The merchandise is not to be released until the 
said notice has been submitted. 
Reference to T. D. 48693 should be noted in the margin opposite article 
560 (a). 
The references to T. D. 33110 and T. D. 33247 appearing opposite article 
564 (a), and T. D. 39792 appearing opposite articles 559 (a) and (&) and 561 
(a) are deleted. Reference to T. D. 48728 should be inserted in lieu thereof 
in each case. 
jAilES H. MOYLE. 
Commissioner of Customs. 
Approved February 10, 1937 : 
Josephine Roche, 
Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 
FRUITFLIES in the REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR 
By Johannes E. Wille, Estacion Experimental Agricola de la Molina, Lima^ 
Peru 
''The Fruit Fly Survey in the West Indies, Brazil,, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru 
in 1931-32", as summarized by Max Kisliuk, Jr., and C. E. Cooley in Service 
and Regulatory Announcements No. 116 (July-September 1933) by the Bureau 
of Plant Quarantine, United States Department of Agriculture, presented a fair 
idea of . the distribution of fruittlies in most of the South American countries. 
That survey, however, did not include the Republic of Ecuador. During a short 
vacation in Ecuador in June 1936 the writer made some observations along 
this line. The districts visited included the fluvial region around Guayaquil, 
the Andean Zone from Riobamba over Ambato and Quito to Ibarra, and the 
more tropical areas east of Ambato. 
Oranges and bananas were the fruits grown most extensively in the Guayaquil 
area and there were several commercial plantings of peaches and tangerines 
in the vicinity of Ambato. In all of the areas visited various tropical and 
subtropical fruits were grown on small holdings. The following fruits were 
examined in the public markets and on the plantations in Ecuador : Bananas, 
grapes, pineapples, coffee berries, coconuts, cacao pods, apples, pears, quinces,. 
peaches, guava (Psidium guajava), cherimoyas, figs, soursops, pomegranates^ 
