124 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec 
brown-tail moth, by which you will please be governed. See paragraph 1, 
section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
The principal change is in the release of certain infested areas from regula- 
tion and the change in designation of certain other areas from that of lightly 
infested to generally infested. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
B. E. P. Q. 395 (3d revision). 
LIST OF ARTICLES EXEMPT FROM CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
[Approved October 26, 1938 ; effective November 1, 1938] 
The principal change in this revision is the addition of trailing arbutus 
to the list of exempted plants (see item 14). There have been eliminated from 
this list items such as aquatic plants, silica sand, and similar materials, since 
the conditions of exemption with reference to these items are covered in the 
current regulations of the quarantine. 
In accordance with the third proviso in Notice of Quarantine No. 48, as re- 
vised, the following articles, being considered innocuous as carriers of infesta- 
tion, are exempted from the restrictions of this quarantine and of the regula- 
tions supplemental thereto : 
1. Balsam pillows, when composed of balsam needles only. 
2. Banana stalks, when crushed, dried, and shredded. 
3. Dyed moss and dyed sand, when heat treated, and when so labeled on 
the outside of e.ich container of such materials. 
4. Floral designs or 4i set pieces/' including wreaths, sprays, casket covers, and 
all formal florists' designs. Bouquets and cut flowers not so prepared are not 
exempted. 
5. Herbarium specimens, when dried, pressed, and treated, and when so 
labeled on the outside of each container of such materials. 
6. Manure, peat, compost, or humus (a) when dehydrated and either 
shredded, ground, pulverized, or compressed, or (b) when treated with crude 
petroleum or any other product having high potency as an insecticide, and when 
so labeled on the outside of each commercial container of such materials. (See 
also item 13.) 
7-. Moss, sheet (Calliergon schriberi and Thuridium recognitum) . 
8. Mushroom spawn, in brick, flake, or pure culture form. 
9. Orchids, cut. 
10. Orchid plants, when growing exclusively in Osmunda fiber. 
11. Osmunda fiber, Osmundine, or orchid peat {Osmunda cinnamomea, and 
O. claytoniana) . 
12. Resurrection plant or birds'-nest moss (Selaginella lepidophylla) . 
13. Sphagnum moss, bog moss, or peat moss (Sphagnaceae) when dried and 
baled. (See also item G.) 
14. Trailing arbutus, or mayflower (Epigaea repens), when free from soil or 
primary roots, and when shipped during the period between October 16 and 
June 14, inclusive. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, November 2, 1938. 
Referring to quarantine order No. 48 on account of the Japanese beetle, notice 
is given to postmasters in the regulated area in the States of Connecticut, Dela- 
