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other places in New Hanover County, N. C, as well as in the vicinity of Goldsboro, 
Wayne County, and in parts of Pender County. 
The area regulated by the quarantine is now extended to include parts of these 
counties and also several areas in Alabama and Mississippi in which infestations 
of the beetles have been found since the quarantine and regulations were last 
revised. These include part of Lowndes County, Ala., and part of Jefferson Davis 
County, Miss. Minor additions to the quarantined area are made in Dallas 
County, Ala., and in six Mississippi counties. No change is made in the regulated 
areas in Florida and Louisiana. 
Articles brought under restriction for the first time include bulbs, corms, 
tubers, and rhizomes of ornamental plants, and moss and gravel. Other re- 
stricted articles and materials that must be certified for movement interstate 
from the regulated areas to points outside include soil, nursery stock, hay, pota- 
toes, scrap metal, implements, forest products, and building materials. 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Part 301 — Domestic Quarantine Notices 
subpart white-fringed beetle (quarantine no. 72) 
REVISION OF QUARANTINE AND REGULATIONS EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 28, 1942 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
This revision of the quarantine and regulations is made principally because of 
the discovery during the past summer and fall of white-fringed beetle infesta- 
tions in North Carolina in the vicinity of Wilmington and other places in New 
Hanover County, in the vicinity of Goldsboro, Wayne County, and in parts of 
Pender County. The regulated area is extended to include parts of the above 
counties as well as several areas in Alabama and Mississippi in which infesta- 
tions of the beetles have been found since the quarantine and regulations were 
last revised. Brought within the regulated area for the first time are part of 
Lowndes County, Ala., and part of Jefferson Davis County, Miss. Minor addi- 
tions to the regulated areas are made in Dallas County, Ala., and Forrest, Har- 
rison, Jackson, Jones, Pearl River, and Stone Counties, Miss. 
All restricted articles are placed under quarantine throughout the year be- 
cause of seasonal variation in the development of the pests in the different areas, 
the differences in the life history and habits of the various species, and other 
biological factors. However, the quarantine provides for modification of cer- 
tification requirements as to articles, seasons, or areas through administrative 
instructions issued from time to time by the Chief of the Bureau when in 
his judgment no hazard of dissemination of the beetles is presented by such 
modification. Articles brought under restriction for the first time in this revision 
include gravel, moss, and bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes of ornamental plants. 
Peanut shells are no longer restricted by these regulations. 
Minor modifications have been made in regulations pertaining to limited 
permits (paragraph (&) of § 301.72-5) and to the cleaning of railway cars 
(§ 301.72-8). 
Arrangements for inspection of the restricted articles may be made by ad- 
dressing the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, P. O. Box 989, Gulf- 
port, Miss., or other field offices listed in the administrative instructions. 
DETERMINATION OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE 
The Secretary of Agriculture, having given the public hearing required by law 
and having determined that it was necessary to quarantine the States of Ala- 
bama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi to prevent the spread of infestations 
of introduced species of the genus Pantomorns, subgenus Graphognathits, com- 
monly known as white-fringed beetles, not theretofore widely prevalent or dis- 
tributed within and throughout the United States, on December 14, 1938, pro- 
