60 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
(b) Except as specified above the following articles and materials shall 
remain under the restrictions of § 301.72-3 : 
(1) All soil, earth, sand, clay, peat, muck, compost, and manure, whether 
moved independent of, or in connection with, or attached to nursery stock, 
plants, products, articles, or things. 
(2) Nursery stock. 
(3) Grass sod. 
(4) Lily bulbs when freshly harvested and uncured. 
(5) Peanut hay. 
(6) Seed cotton and cottonseed. 
(7) Used implements, machinery, containers, scrap metal, and junk. 
This revision supersedes Circular B. E. P. Q. 485, ninth revision, which be- 
came effective May 11, 1942. 
(7 C. F. R., § 301.72 ; sec. 8, 39 Stat. 1165, 44 Stat. 250 ; 7 U. S. C 161.) 
Done at Washington this 1st day of August 1942. 
P. N. Annand, 
Chief. 
[Filed with the Division of the Federal Register August 8, 1942, 12 : 06 p. m., 7 F. R. 6179.] 
HEARING WILL. CONSIDER BEETLE 
QUARANTINE FOR NORTH CAROLINA 
[Press notice] 
September 25, 1942. 
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard announced today a public hearing 
to consider placing North Carolina under Federal quarantine because of the 
recent discovery of infestations of the white-fringed beetle in that State. The 
hearing will be held in the auditorium of the Department of Agriculture, 
South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW., at 10 : 30 a. m., 
October 15, 1942. 
The white-fringed beetles were first reported as occurring in the United 
States in 1936, and since 1937 have been known to be present in parts of 
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. On January 15, 1939, these 
States were placed under a Federal quarantine which restricts or prohibits the 
interstate movement of soil and certain plants, plant products, and other 
articles to points outside the areas regulated by this quarantine. 
Surveys to determine whether this insect exists in places not previously known 
to be infested have been conducted over wide areas during the past several 
years. During the past summer white-fringed beetles were discovered at several 
places within and in the vicinities of Atkinson, Burgaw, Goldsboro, and Wilming- 
ton, N. C. Farm land, as well as industrial and residential areas, was found 
to be infested. 
This insect in its various stages may be carried from place to place through 
movement of soil and other articles. 
Both larvae and adults feed on a wide range of plants. The larvae are 
capable of causing serious damage to many field and garden crops, and are 
exceedingly destructive to several important crops grown in many sections of 
the country. If allowed to spread, this insect may become a serious pest in 
agricultural regions of the United States not now infested. 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III— Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Part 301 — Domestic Quarantine Notices 
White-Fringed Beetle 
notice of public hearing to consider the advisability of revising the white- 
fringed beetle quarantine to include north carolina 
September 25, 1942. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that white-fringed beetles (species 
of the genus Pantomorus, subgenus Graphognathus) , insect pests dangerous to 
