Bur. Ent. & P. Q. Issued August 1936 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LIST OF INTERCEPTED PLANT PESTS, 1935 
(List of Pests Recorded During the Period July 1, 1934, to June 30, 1935, 
Inclusive, as Intercepted in, on, or with Plants and Plant Products Entering 
United States Territory) 
INTRODUCTION 
This is the forty-first paper of a series issued under various names at more or 
less irregular intervals listing intercepted plant pests. The present list covers 
the twenty-second year of the period since the lists were started and includes 
intercepted plant pests for which determinations were received and indexed 
during the period specified. The sources from which the data were derived and 
the mariner of preparation are discussed in previous lists. 
Most of the insect determinations were made by specialists of the Bureau and 
many of the plant-disease and host determinations by specialists of the Bureau 
of Plant Industry. The States of California and Florida and the Territory of 
Hawaii maintain their own staffs of specialists and make many of their own 
determinations. Frequently the intercepted material is in a stage that is not 
determinable or is too badly damaged or is inadequate for determination. Many 
times the only organisms recognized are innocuous. Such interceptions, num- 
bering some thousands, are omitted from the list. 
As pointed out in previous lists of interceptions, statement as to the origin of 
fruits and vegetables carried as ships' stores, as well as of plants used for decora- 
tive purposes and of plant material carried by passengers, cannot always be veri- 
fied, but every effort is made to give the origin of such plants and plant products 
as accurately as possible. 
FRUIT FLIES 
The following fruit flies were intercepted: Celery fly (Acidia heraclei) in celery 
from Italy; ! West Indian fruit fly (Anastrepha acidusa) in mango from Puerto 
Rico; Mexican fruit fly (A. ludens) in grapefruit, mango, orange, and sour orange 
from Mexico; A. obliqua (adult) with banana debris from Panama; dark fruit fly 
(A. serpentina) in mamey and sapote from Mexico; Central American fruit fly 
(A. striata) in guava and in a bag with figs, guavas, peaches, and sweet limes 
from Mexico; Anastrepha sp. in orange and pumpkin from Brazil, mango from 
Cuba, Dominica, and Haiti, sapote from Guatemala, mango and star-apple 
from Honduras, guava and mango from Jamaica, avocado. Crataegus mexicana, 
grapefruit, guava, mamey, mango, orange, pear, and sapote from Mexico, in 
mango and (adults) with bananas and banana debris from Panama, in cherimoya, 
guava, mango, star-apple, and (pupae) in packing with mangoes from Puerto 
Rico, and in grapefruit, mango, and orange from Trinidad; melon fly (Bactrocera 
cucurbitae) in tomato from Hawaii; Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) 
in tangerine from Algeria, apple, guava, loquat, orange, sorbe, and tangerine 
from the Azores, orange from Brazil, tangerine from France, apple, pricklypear, 
and quince from Greece, avocado, coffee, longan, mango, and star-apple from 
Hawaii, apple, grape, orange, peach, pear, persimmon, pricklypear, quince, 
tangerine, and (pupa and puparia) in a box of dried figs and nuts from Italy, 
grapefruit, orange, and (puparia) on packing around grapefruit from Palestine, 
apple, loquat, orange, quince, and Sorbus sp. from Portugal, apricot, grape, 
lemon, orange, and peach from Spain, and (adult) with sugarcane from Trinidad; 
olive fruit fly (Dacus oleae) in olives from Greece and Italy; apple maggot 
(Rhagoletis pomonella) in Crataegus mexicana from Mexico; R. suavis in black 
walnut from Mexico; Rhagoletis sp. in cherry from Bermuda, cherry and sour 
i For details of interceptions mentioned in the text see lists under the countries named. 
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