50 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
will also prepare a history of the gypsy moth work in the United States, in 
advance of his normal retirement. 
Mr. Sheals was born at Brnshton, N. Y., on March 26, 1893. His collegiate 
training was in forestry with specialization in forest insects. He graduated 
from New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse, N. Y., in 1917. His 
early association with the Department of Agriculture was with the white pine 
blister rust work, extending from 1917 to 1928. Since 1928 he has been associ- 
ated with the organization now known as the Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine. During this period he has been a member of the Division of Domestic 
Plant Quarantines, and since 1929 has been Assistant Chief of the Division. His 
work with the Division of Domestic Plant Quarantines has included a number 
of assignments and administrative responsibility for activities over a wide 
field. He shared in organizing the work of inspection of plants and plant prod- 
ucts in transit to assure compliance with quarantines ; aided in the direction of 
extensive cooperative control campaigns against insect pests and plant diseases 
such as grasshoppers, Mormon crickets, chinch bugs, white-fringed beetle, mole 
crickets, citrus canker, phony peach, and peach mosaic. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, August 20, 1942. 
Postmaster : 
My Dear Sir: Attention is invited to the inclosed copy of the latest revision 
of Federal Quarantine No. 48 on account of the Japanese beetle, issued by the 
United States Department of Agriculture, which became effective March 24, 
1942, and which increases somewhat the area previously under quarantine 
and also modifies slightly the restrictions formerly imposed. You will please 
be governed accordingly. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and 
Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
B. E. P. Q. 394, Second Revision. Effective July 20, 1942. 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Part 301 — Domestic Quarantine Notices 
japanese beetle administrative instructions modified 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
In reissuing this circular to replenish the supply no change has been made in 
the list of bulbs, corms, and tubers that are exempted from the certification 
requirements of the quarantine. Some modifications have been made in the 
names, however, principally the common names, in order to bring them into line 
with standard plant nomenclature. 
§ 301.48-6a. List of true bulbs, corms, and tubers exempted from Japanese 
beetle certification. Under § 301.48-6 [regulation 6 of quarantine No. 48], true 
bulbs, corms, and tubers are exempt from Japanese beetle certification when dor- 
mant, except for storage growth, and when free from soil. The exemption in- 
cludes single dahlia tubers or small dahlia root divisions when free from stems, 
cavities, and soil. Dahlia tubers, other than single tubers or small root divisions 
meeting these conditions, require certification. 
