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Article 1. The importation is prohibited of potatoes proceeding directly or 
indirectly from any European country except Spain (decrees nos. 1070 and 822), 
and from Miquelon, St. Pierre, Newfoundland, and South Africa, in which the 
existence of potato wart has been announced. 
Art. 2. Importation permitted under certification- The introduction of pota- 
toes is permitted from countries not mentioned in the preceding article when 
each shipment is accompanied by a certificate of the official plant protection 
service of the country of origin, certifying that the product was examined and 
that in the district where it was grown neither potato wart nor Colorado hectic 
exists. 
IMPORTATION OF BANANA PLANTS AND FRUITS PROHIBITED FROM FIJI ISLANDS AND 
PUERTO RICO 
Decree no. 1122 of May 6, 1029, in virtue of the existence in the Fiji Islands 
and Puerto Rico of the banana root borer (Gosmospolites sordidus Germ.,), 
whose entry into this country is to he prevented, the importation is prohibited 
of plants, parts of plants, and fruits of any variety of banana or plantain from 
those sources. 
INTRODUCTION OF INJURIOUS INSECTS AND ANIMALS RESTRICTED 
Decree no. 11G2 of June 6, 1929, to prevent the introduction of insects and 
animals harmful to agriculture, prescribes that: 
Article 1. The importation is prohibited of any species of insects or animals 
that may be prejudicial to the national agriculture, unless a permit has been 
issued in advance by the Secretary to the interested person. Such permit 
shall indicate the class, order, family, tribe, genus, subgenus, if any, and the 
species to which the insect or animal belongs, that he wishes to import, as 
well as the country of origin. 
IMPORTATION OF CONIFERS PROHIBITED 
Decree no. 1185 of September 20, 1929, to prevent the introduction into the 
Republic of diseases of the pine known as rusts, caused by Uredinales, which 
exist in America and Europe, the importation is prohibited of living plants of 
any class of conifer. 
IMPORTATION OF PADDY RICE PROHIBITED 
Decree no. 119 of April 25, 1931, to prevent the introduction of certain insect 
pests and plant diseases of rice from various countries, prescribes that : 
Article 1. The introduction of paddy rice from any exterior source, and 
by any means, is prohibited. 
Art. 2. Excepted from this prohibition are small quantities of seed rice 
consigned to the Department exclusively for experimental culture. 
The inspector of plants and seeds will disinfect such seed rice before deliver- 
ing it to the departmental consignee. 
RICE DISEASES AND PESTS EXISTING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES 
This decree lists the following insect pests and diseases as attacking rice 
crops in foreign countries : 
Insects 
Chilo plejadellus Zinck (rice stalk borer). 
Chilo simplex Butl. (Asiatic rice borer). 
Diabrotica duodecimpunotata Fab. (spotted cucumber beetle). 
Diabrotica soror Lee. (western spotted cucumber beetle). 
Diatraea saccharalis Pab. (sugarcane borer). 
Diatraea venosata Wlk. Cspotted borer). 
Euetheola rugiceps Lee. (sugarcane beetle). 
Haplothnps japonicus Matsumura (thrips). 
Haplothrips oryzae Matsumura (thrips). 
Laphygma frugiperda S. and A. (fall armyworm). 
