S. R. A.-B. E. P. Q. No. 150. 
Issued June 1942 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
JANUARY-MARCH 1942 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Quarantine and other official announcements 1 
Announcements relating to Japanese beetle quarantine (No. 48) 1 
Revise quarantine on Japanese beetle (press notice) 1 
Revision of regulations effective March 24, 1942 2 
Notice to ceneral public through newspapers 14 
Announcements relating to Mexican fruitfiy quarantine (No. 64) 15 
Texas citrus fruit harvest extended (press notice) 15 
Mexican fruitfiy regulations modified— harvesting season extended (B. E. P. Q. 521) 15 
Announcement relating to white-fringed beetle quarantine (No. 72) lf> 
White-fringed beetle administrative instructions modified— treatments authorized (B. E. 
P. Q. 503. fourth revision) 16 
Miscellaneous items 19 
Wakeland to head Division of Grasshopper Control (press notice) 19 
Plant-quarantine import restrictions, Republic of Cuba (B. E. P. Q. 519, supplement No. 1).. 19 
Plant-quarantine import restrictions, Burma (B. E. P. Q. 520) 20 
Plant-quarantine import restrictions. Republic of Ecuador (B. E. P. Q. 522) 23 
Penalties imposed for violations of the Plant Quarantine Act 25 
Organization of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 27 
QUARANTINE AND OTHER OFFICIAL 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
REVISE QUARANTINE ON JAPANESE BEETLE 
[Press notice] 
March 2r>. 11)42. 
The United States Department of Agriculture announced today that Japanese 
beetle quarantine regulations have been revised, effective /.larch 24, 11)42. 
Regulated areas have been extended to include relatively small sections in 
Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The new areas 
include parts of the counties of Allegany and Washington, Md\, the previously 
unregulated parts of Carroll, Frederick, and Prince Georges Counties. Md., parts 
of Ontario and Monroe Counties. N. Y., Meadville, Pa., Charlottesville. Danville. 
Schoolheld, and Front Royal, Va., Paden City, and the magisterial district of 
Lincoln in Tyler County, W. Va. These additions to the regulated area are 
made because numbers of beetles were found in these sections by scouts in 1941. 
That part of the regulated area from which the movement of fruits and vege- 
tables is under regulation — the more heavily infested area — has been extended 
to include additional districts in Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties, Md., 
and in Berks, Cumberland, Lehigh, Northampton, and York Counties, Pa. Char- 
lottesville, Va., is now included with Toledo, Ohio, rn1 Winchester, Va., as 
isolated regulated points to which fruit and vegetable shipments via refrigerator 
car or motortruck may move only under certification. Shij pers of cut flowers 
located within the regulated area, but outside the heavily infested part, now are 
not reo.uired to obtain certification for their shipments. Soil-free looted cuttings 
and fresh manure are exempt from certification under current regulations. 
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