2 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [ Jan. -Mar. 
B. E. P. Q. — Q. 48. Revision of Regulations 
Effective March 24, 1942 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — BUREAU of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Part 301 — Domestic Quarantine Notices 
japani.se beetle quarantine 
introductory note 
In the current revision of the Japanese beetle quarantine regulations, relatively 
small extensions of regulated areas are made in Maryland, New York, Pennsyl- 
vania. Virginia, and AVest Virginia. Additions to the regulated area in Mary- 
land include portions of the counties of Allegany and Washington, and the 
previously unregulated portions of the counties of Carroll, Frederick, and Prince 
Georges. In New York, the town of Manchester, Ontario County, and the town 
of Pittsford and village of East Rochester, in Monroe County, are brought under 
regulation. Extension of the Pennsylvania regulated area is limited to the city 
of Meadville, in Crawford County. The cities of Charlottesville and Danville, 
the village of Schoolfield in Pittsylvania County, and the town of Front Royal 
in Warren County. Va., are added to the regulated area. The area in Warwick 
County, Ya., has been slightly increased and described as the magisterial district 
of Newport, which includes the Camp Stuart locality heretofore under regulation. 
An addition to the West Virginia area was made by the inclusion of the magis- 
terial district of Lincoln, Tyler County, and the town of Paden City, in Tyler and 
Wetzel Counties. 
Areas from which the movement of fruits and vegetables is regulated 
(§ 301.48-5) have been further extended to include additional election districts 
and towns in Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties, Md,, and Berks, Cumber- 
land, Lehigh, Northampton, and York Counties, Pa. Charlottesville, Va., is now 
included with Toledo, Ohio, and Winchester, Va., as isolated regulated points 
to which fruit and vegetable shipments via refrigerator car or motortruck 
may move only under certification. 
Soil-free rooted cuttings and fresh manure have been added to the list of 
exempted articles, and the special labeling requirements previously prescribed 
for containers of certain exempted articles have been removed. 
Restrictions on the movement of cut flowers are now confined to shipments 
moving from the heavily infested area interstate to points outside the regulated 
areas. This heavily infested area (§ 301.48-5) is that from which the move- 
ment of fruits and vegetables is also restricted. This will relieve shippers of 
cut flowers located within the regulated area, but outside the heavily infested 
portion, from the necessity of obtaining certification for their shipments. 
Minor changes have been made in § 301.48-6 relating to the maintenance of a 
classified status at an infested nursery or greenhouse. 
Authorization for the issuance of permits for the movement via motortruck 
of all restricted articles from a regulated area through a nonregulated area 
to another regulated area has been restored. 
This revision supersedes the rules and regulations supplemental to the revi- 
sion of Notice of Quarantine No. 48, which became effective February 12, 
1941, .is amended by administrative instructions (B. E. P. Q. 513), effective 
April 21, 1941. 
SUMMARY 
Unless a certificate has been issued, these regulations, as now revised, pro- 
hibit tb>» interstate movement between June 15 and October 15 (between June 
1 and October 15 in the case of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Va.) of 
all fruits and vegetables by refrigerator car or motortruck and cut flowers by 
any mode of transportation, from the District of Columbia, the State of 
Delaware, and parts of Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, as 
defined in § 301.48-5, to or through points outside the regulated areas as 
defined in § 301.48-3. 
Also restricted in the regulations is the interstate movement of plants, sand, 
soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure from any part of the regulated areas to 
