236 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
Name of o£Rcial competent authority. 
Name des amtliclien Sachverstandigen. 
Name and address of shipper 
Name und Anschrift des Absenders. 
Name and address of consignee 
Name und Anschrift des Empf angers. 
Place and date- 
Ort und Datum. 
Oflacial seal. 
Dienstsiegel. 
Official station of competent authority. 
Dienststellung des Sachverstandigen. 
Impoktation of Colorado Potato Beett.e Prohibited 
[Decree of July 20, 1934] 
This decree prohibits the importation and transit of living Colorado potato 
beetles {Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) in any stage of development. 
importation of fresh vegetables from FRANCE, BELGIUM, AND LUXEMBURG 
RESTRICTED 
It also limits to the period from April 1 to November 14 of each year the 
importation and transit of fresh vegetables and other fresh culinary plants of 
all kinds, except fruits, from France, Belgium, and Luxemburg, to prevent 
the introduction of the Colorado potato beetle, and on condition that those 
products were grown at least 50 km from the border of a district infested by 
that pest, and that each shipment be accompanied by a certificate in prescribed 
form certifying the freedom of the products from Colorado potato beetle and 
affirming that the pest has not hitherto been determined within 50 km of the 
place where the products were grown. 
This decree revokes and supersedes previous decrees on the same subject, 
including that of February 23, 1932, consequently necessitating the substitution 
of the second item on page 2 of B. E. P. Q. 405 by the following items under 
the caption of the summary "Importation Prohibited" : 
Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) : Importation and 
transit of living Colorado potato beetles in any stage of development pro- 
hibited. (Decree of July 20, 1937, art. 1 ; R. G. Bl. I, No. 86, July 26, 1937, p. 
825.) 
Potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, rooted plants with and without balls of earth, 
subterranean tubers and bulbs, rhizomes and other subterranean parts of 
plants, peelings, and other refuse of such products, and containers used for 
packing or storing such products and refuse : Importation and transit of such 
articles from France, Belgium, and Luxemburg prohibited. (Decree of July 
20, 1937, art. 2; art. 4 provides for exceptions under certification.) 
The following item supersedes the fifth item on page 4 of B. E. P. Q. 405 
under the caption "Importation Restricted" : 
Fresh vegetables and other fresh culinary plants of all kinds, and the aerial 
parts of plants, except fruits, from France, Belgium, and Luxemburg: Except 
as prohibited by article 2 of the decree of July 20, 1937, the importation and 
transit of these products is limited to the period April 1 to November 14 of 
each year, on condition that they were grown in a locality situated at least 
50 kilometers from a district infested by the Colorado potato beetle, and that 
each shipment is accompanied by a certificate in prescribed form in the lan- 
guage of the country of origin and in German, testifying that the shipment 
has been inspected by a competent authority and found free from that pest 
and that the pest has not hitherto been determined within a radius of 50 
kilometers of the place where the products were grown. (Decree of July 20, 
1937, art. 3; R. G. Bl. I, No. 86, July 26, 1937, p. 825.) 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
