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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 131 
Sweetpotato and yam. — Quarantine No. 30, effective January 1, 1918: Prohibits 
the movement from the Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico into or through 
any other Territory, State, or District of the United States of all varieties of 
sweetpotatoes and yams (Ipomoea batatas and Dioscorea spp.), regardless of the 
use for which the same are intended, on account of the sweetpotato weevil (Cylas 
formicarius) and the sweetpotato scarabee (Euscepes batatae). 
Banana plants. — Quarantine No. 32, effective April 1, 1918: Prohibits the 
movement from the Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico into or through any 
other Territory, State, or District of the United States of any species or variety 
of banana plants (Musa spp.), regardless of the use for which the same are 
intended, on account of two injurious weevils (Rhabdocnemis obscurus and Meta- 
masius hemipterus). 
Hawaiian and Puerto Rican cotton, cottonseed, and cottonseed products. — Quar- 
antine No. 47, effective August 15, 1920: Prohibits, except as provided in the 
rules and regulations supplemental thereto, effective August 15, 1920, the move- 
ment of cotton, cottonseed, and cottonseed products from the Territories of 
Hawaii and Puerto Rico into or through any other Territory, State, or District 
of the United States on account of the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) 
and the cotton-blister mite (Eriophyes gossypii), respectively. 
United States quarantined to protect Hawaii. — Quarantine No. 51, effective 
October 1, 1921: Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations 
supplemental thereto, effective October 1, 1921, the movement from the United 
States to the Territory of Hawaii, as ships' stores or as baggage or effects of pas- 
sengers or crews, of sugarcane, corn, cotton, alfalfa, and the fruits of the avocado 
and papaya in the natural or raw state, on account of injurious insects, especially 
the sugarcane borer (Diatraea saccharalis Fab.), the alfalfa weevil {Hyper a postica 
Gyll.), the cotton-boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boh.), the papaya fruit fly 
{Toxotrypana curvicauda Guerst.), and certain insect enemies of the fruit of the 
avocado. 
Puerto Rican fruits and vegetables. — Quarantine No. 58, effective July 1, 1925: 
Prohibits, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, 
amended effective January 1, 1933, the movement from the Territory of Puerto 
Rico into or through any other Territory, State, or District of the United States 
of all fruits and vegetables in the raw or unprocessed state, on account of injurious 
insects, including the West Indian fruit fly (Anastrepha fraterculus Wied.), and 
the bean-pod borer {Maruca testulalis Geyer). 
Sand, soil, or earth, with plants from Hawaii and Puerto Rico. — Quarantine No. 60, 
effective March 1, 1926: Prohibits the movement from the Territories of Hawaii 
and Puerto Rico into or through any other Territory, State, or District of the 
United States of sand (other than clean ocean sand), soil, or earth around the 
roots of plants, to prevent the spread of white grubs, the Japanese rose beetle, and 
termites or white ants. 
Foreign Plant Quarantines 
Potatoes. — Quarantine No. 3, effective September 20, 1912: Forbids the impor- 
tation of potatoes from Newfoundland; the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon; 
Great Britain, including England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; Germany; and 
Austria-Hungary, on account of the disease known as potato wart (Synchyirium 
endobioticum) . 
Mexican fruits. — Quarantine No. 5, effective January 15, 1913, as amended 
effective February 8, 1913: Forbids the importation of oranges, sweet limes, grape- 
fruit, mangoes, achras sapotes, peaches, guavas, and plums from the Republic 
of Mexico, on account of the Mexican fruit fly (Trypeta ludens). 
White-pine blister rust. — Quarantine No. 7, effective May 21, 1913, as amended 
effective March 16, 1916, and June 1, 1917: Forbids the importation from each 
and every country of Europe and Asia, and from the Dominion of Canada and 
Newfoundland, of all 5-leafed pines and all species and varieties of the genera 
Ribes and Grossularia. 
Pink bollworm. — Quarantine No. 8, effective July 1, 1913, with revised regula- 
tions effective July 1, 1917: Forbids the importation from any foreign locality 
and country, excepting only the locality of the Imperial. Valley, in the State of 
Lower California, Mexico, of cottonseed (including seed cotton) of all species and 
varieties, and cottonseed hulls. Seed cotton, cottonseed, and cottonseed hulls 
from the Imperial Valley may be entered under permit and regulation. 
Seeds of avocado or alligator pear. — Quarantine No. 12, effective February 27, 
1914: Forbids the importation from Mexico and the countries of Central America 
of the seed of the avocado or alligator pear on account of the avocado weevil 
(Heilipus lauri). 
