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in soil and on various articles that may be moved in commerce, and may remain 
viable more than 5 months, hatching when conditions are favorable. The larvae 
can be transported with products which carry small quantities 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 exceedingly 
destructive to several important crops. 
WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE QUARANTINE 
Quarantine No. 72 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
The white-fringed beetle was first discovered in the United States in Okaloosa 
County, Fla., in the autumn of 1936. This pest is known to occur in South 
America and has recently been reported in New South Wales but the time and 
method of introduction into the United States are unknown. 
The larvae of the beetle feed on a wide variety of plant roots and tubers, 
while the adults feed on leaves and tender shoots above ground. 
Adults may be carried to other points by any moving thing, eggs may be trans- 
ported from place to place in the movement of almost any article coming in 
contact with the ground, and larvae may be moved with various kinds of soil, 
peat, compost, and manure. 
It is evident, therefore, that cosmopolitan food habits of the pest, its diverse 
means of spread in any stage of development, together with its parthenogenetic 
mode of reproduction, characterize the white-fringed beetle as a potentially 
serious threat to American agricultural and horticultural interests. 
SUMMARY 
The restricted articles are prohibited movement interstate from any regulated 
area to or through any point outside thereof unless there is attached to the 
outside of the container a valid inspection certificate issued by an inspector 
duly authorized by the United States Department of Agriculture. This require- 
ment applies in the case of all restricted articles and for the period of the year 
designated in regulation 3 unless the Chief of the Bureau has given formal 
notice to the public that modification has been made as to the articles, or areas, 
or periods of the year specified in the regulations. 
The list of restricted articles and the period of the year when the certifica- 
tion requirement applies, are stated in regulation 3. 
The regulated areas are designated in regulation 2. 
Arrangements for inspection may be made by addressing the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Box 989, Gulfport, Miss. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 72 
[Approved December 14, 1938; effective January in, 1939] 
I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, have determined that a quarantine 
of the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi is necessary to 
prevent the spread of dangerous infestations of the white-fringed beetle (Nau- 
pactus leucoloma Boh.), and a closely related species of Naupactus, two insect 
pests not widely prevalent within and throughout the United States. 
Now, therefore, under authority conferred by section 8 of the Plant Quaran- 
tine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended, and having given the 
public hearing required thereby, I do quarantine the States <>f Alabama, Florida, 
Louisiana, and Mississippi, and do order that (1) nursery stock or any oilier 
plants or plant products; (2) soil, independent of, or used in connection with 
nursery stock, plants, or plant products; or (3) other articles (as specifically 
named in the regulations supplemental hereto, in modifications thereof, or in 
administrative instructions as provided in the regulations supplemental hereto) 
which are capable of carrying the aforesaid insect infestations, shall not he 
