38 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept 
This insect may be carried from place to place through commerce, especially 
that involving agricultural products and used implements. The eggs are 
deposited in soil and on various articles that may be moved in commerce, and 
may remain viable more than 5 months, hatching when conditions are favor- 
able. The larvae can be transported with products which carry small quan- 
tities of soil. Adults may be carried attached to almost any object within 
their reach. 
Both larvae and adults feed on a wide range of plants. The larvae have 
•caused serious damage to numerous field and garden crops, and are exceed- 
ingly destructive to several important crops. It is reasonable to assume that 
the larvae and adults will attack many plants that are widely grown in 
other sections of the country and, if allowed to spread, may become a serious 
pest in other agricultural regions of the United States, the Secretary said. 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF QUARANTINING 
THE STATES OF ALABAMA, FLORIDA, LOUISIANA, AND MISSISSIPPI ON ACCOUNT 
of the white-fringed beetle 
August 18, 1938. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that the white-fringed beetle 
(Naupactus leucoloma Boh.), an insect pest dangerous to agriculture, and not 
heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United 
States, exists in the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, 
and that a closely related species of Naupactus exists in the State of 
Mississippi. 
It appears necessary, therefore, to consider the advisability of quarantining 
the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and of restricting 
or prohibiting the movement from these States, or regulated portions thereof, 
of the following articles : 
(1) Soil as such or in connection with nursery stock, plants, or other 
products, articles, or things; and (2) farm products and such other articles as 
may be deemed necessary to prevent the dissemination of these insects in any 
stage of development. 
Notice is, therefore, hereby given that, in accordance with the Plant Quar- 
antine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Con- 
gress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134. 1165), a public hearing will be 
held before the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in Court Room 
No. 206 of the Post Office, New Orleans, La., at 10 a. m. September 15, 1938, 
in order that any persons interested in the proposed quarantine may appear 
and be heard, either in person or by attorney. 
[seal] H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
P. Q. C. A. 306, Supplement No. 5. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, NEW ZEALAND 
September 10, 1938. 
importation of citrus fruits and bananas prohibited 
New Zealand Customs Import Prohibition Order No. 3 of May 11, 1938, 
gazetted May 12, 1938, prohibits, save with the consent of the Minister of 
Customs, the importation of fresh fruit of any of the following kinds, namely, 
oranges, mandarin oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and bananas. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. 444, Revised. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, FRENCH ZONE OF MOROCCO 
July 1, 1938. 
The revision of the digest of the plant-quarantine import restrictions of the 
French zone of Morocco has been prepared for the information of nurserymen, 
