14 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
whose importation into Persia is prohibited during the administrative year 
1316-1317 (June 22, 1937, to June 22, 1938) : 
Castor beans as seeds (Ricinus sp.), grass seeds, sarcocolla seeds (Penaea 
fucata L.), quince seeds (Cydonia sp.), fodder, hay, alfalfa (fresh or dried), 
straw, potted flowers ; 
Seeds of all kinds ; 
Plant food material, fruits, vegetables, and dried fruits. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. 465, Supplement No. 1. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, FRENCH COLONIES (OCEANIA) 
February 19, 1938. 
The order of the Governor, dated August 31, 1934, effective December 1, 
1934, prohibits the importation into French Oceania of fresh cabbage and 
cauliflower, in order to prevent the introduction of the common green cabbage 
worm (Ascia rapae L.) into that Colony. Any shipment of those products 
arriving in French Oceania will be destroyed. 
[Superseding the Memorandum of November 26, 1934, to Inspectors in Charge] 
IMPORTATION PROHIBITED INTO THE FRENCH SETTLEMENTS OF OCEANIA OF PLANTS, 
PARTS OF PLANTS, SEEDLINGS, SEEDS, FRUITS, AND PLANT PRODUCTS GENERALLY, 
FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES 
Article 1 of a recent order, No. 1233, prohibits the importation of plants, 
parts of plants, seedlings, seeds, fruits, and plant products in general, as well 
as their containers, proceeding from Samoa (eastern and western), the Tonga 
Archipelago, the Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, the Philippine Islands, 
Taiwan, Cuba, Haiti, San Domingo, and Puerto Rico, as a precaution against 
the introduction of coleopterous parasites of the coconut palm especially 
Oryctes monoceros 01. (rhinoceros beetle). 
IMPORTATION OF CRUDE FIBERS PROHIBITED 
Art. 2. This prohibition applies also to copra and crude (raw) fibers, but 
not to parts of plants that have been subjected to any manufacturing process 
unless they are moist or rotten. 
IMPORTATION OF SAND, SOIL, AND FERTILIZERS PROHIBITED 
Art. 3. The importation of sand, soil, and fertilizers from the same sources, 
whether alone or accompanying other products, is also prohibited. 
RESTRICTIONS ON THE LANDING OF OTHER PRODUCTS 
Art. 5. Prescribes that general cargo, other than soils and plant products, 
laden at ports of the above-named countries, may not be unladen until an 
official certificate of the country of origin, affirming that the articles, packages, 
and materials constituting the cargo to be unladen were fumigated with hydro- 
cyanic acid gas for 1 hour immediately before the departure of the vessel, the 
dosage being a minimum of 50 grams of potassium cyanide per cubic meter 
of space, is presented to an inspector. Such articles shall not be landed until 
they have been inspected by an inspector, who may forbid the landing of such 
articles, or if permission be granted, only on condition of fumigation after 
unlading. No customs official shall permit the landing of such articles except 
on the instructions of an inspector. 
Personal effects, baggage, etc., also shall be inspected and, if deemed neces- 
sary, fumigated. 
The following data should be inserted in B. E. P. Q. 465 as page 4 a : 
GUADELOUPE AND DEPENDENCIES 
Banana plants (Musa spp.) : See order of December 7, 1926, as amended by 
that of February 9, 1935, p. 25. 
