L BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [December 
MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS 
The Asiatic rice borer (Chilo simplex) infested rice-straw packing from China, 
Chosen, and Japan and a wheat-straw mat from Japan. The coffee berry borer 
(Stephanoderes hampei) arrived in unroasted coffee from Angola, Tanganyika, 
and Uganda. Witloof from Belgium was infested with " Agromyza pinguis 
(Agromyzidae). Myzns veronicae (aphid) was intercepted on Veronica speciosa 
from England. Bregmatothrips iridis (thrips) was taken on iris from England 
and the Netherlands. Bruchidius gilvus (Bruchidae) infested sulla seed from 
Italy. Ortheziola vejdovskyi (Coccidae) was intercepted on a rose plant from 
Germany. Pysllia acaciae-baileyanae (Psyllidae) infested cootamundra wattle 
from Australia and New South Wales. Amalus haemorrhous (Curculionidae) 
arrived with heather from Scotland. Tetraleurodes aucubae (whitefly) was inter- 
cepted on Aucuba sp. from Japan. 
The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) was intercepted in cottonseed 
from Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Mexico, and Russia, seed cotton from Mexico, 
cotton bolls from the Bahamas, raw cotton packing for antiques from Egypt, 
and in an empty box car which had been loaded with shelled corn from Mexico. 
The sorrel cutworm (Acronycta rumicis) arrived on rose stock from France. 
Laspeyresia splendana (Olethreutidae) infested chestnuts from Italy, Japan, 
Portugal, and Spain, and acorn from Italy. Acallocrates denticollis (Curculion- 
idae) arrived in packing around grape cuttings from Rumania. The citrus 
blackfly (Aleurocanthus woglumi) was intercepted on orange from the Bahamas, 
the Canal Zone, and Cuba, Citrus sp. from Costa Rica and Jamaica, and coffee 
from Jamaica. 
The bean pod borer (Maruca testulalis) was intercepted in lima beans from 
Cuba, string beans from Cuba and Dutch Guiana, and green beans from Japan. 
Brachycerus albidentatus (Curculionidae) infested cipollino from Morocco and 
garlic from Spain. Psylliodes chrysocephala (Chrysomelidae) was taken in turnips 
from Africa, Denmark, England, and Italy. Apion carduorum (Curculionidae) 
was inteicepted in globe artichoke from France. Turnips from England and 
France were infested with Baris laticollis (Curculionidae). Exosoma lusitanica 
(Chrysomelidae) was taken in cipollini from Morocco. Marmara sp. (Gracil- 
ariidae) infested bell peppers from Mexico. The coffee leaf miner (Leucoptera 
coffeella) was intercepted in coffee leaves from Honduras and Puerto Rico. 
The West Indian sweetpotato weevil (Euscepes batatae) was intercepted in 
sweetpotatoes from Brazil, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, Tahiti , 
and Trinidad. Cylas turcipennis (Curculionidae) arrived with sweetpotatoes 
from the Straits Settlements. The Mexican potato weevil (Epicaerus cog- 
natus) (?) infested potatoes from Mexico. Trypopremnon sp. (Curculionidae) 
was taken in potato from Bolivia. The mango weevil (Sternochetus mangiferae) 
w 7 as intercepted in mango seed from Hawaii. Avocados from Mexico were in- 
fested with Conotrachelus perseae (Curculionidae) and Conotrachelus sp. Palae- 
opus costicollis (Curculionidae) was taken in Dioscorea trifida and Dioscorea sp. 
from Jamaica. 
MISCELLANEOUS PLANT DISEASES 
Among the more important and interesting interceptions of plant diseases for 
the year w T ere potato wart (Synchytrium endobioticum) in potato tubers from 
Bolivia and Peru; a smut (Polysaccopsis hieronymi) on potato tubers from Vene- 
zuela; a rust (Hemileia sp.) on an orchid from Cuba; continued interceptions of 
citrus canker (Bacterium citri) from China and Japan; a marked increase in the 
interceptions of diseases of produce imported from Mexico; interceptions of a 
new species of Tylenchus in potatoes from Brazil; Aphelenchoides sp. (probably 
a new species) in sugarcane from Puerto Rico; Aphelenchoides helophilus in 
Papaver sp. from England; A. tenuicaudatus in yams from Japan; and Para- 
tylenchus sp. in Amaryllis sp. from Brazil. 
Other interceptions of special interest included Aplanobacier michiganense 
on tomatoes from Mexico; Bacterium hyacinthi on hyacinths from Netherlands; 
Aphelenchoides fragariae from Germany and Netherlands; A. parietinus from 
Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Japan, 
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Sweden; Aphelenchoides sp. in Lilium 
neilgherrense from India; Aphelenchus avenae from Africa, Argentina, Brazil, 
England, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Netherlands, Scotland, and Spain; 
Neotylenchus abulbosus in potato from France; Tylenchus dipsaci from Belgium, 
Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, 
Spain, and Sweden; Botrytis galanthina on Galanthus sp. from Denmark; Col- 
letotrichum pisi on peas from Mexico; C. hedericola on Hedera sp. from France; 
Coniothyrium diplodiella on rose from France; C. silvaticum on Euphorbia ery- 
