BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
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PESTS INTERCEPTED 
The inspectors and collaborators of the Bureau collected from 
foreign plants and plant products insects belonging to 1,186 recog- 
nized species and others distributed among 906 genera and families, 
fungi and bacteria belonging to 325 recognized species, and numbers 
of interceptions of diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, or other 
types of pathogens that could be referred to family, genus, or other 
group only. Many of these interceptions were of economic impor- 
tance or of scientific interest, or both, including a number of apparently 
undescribed species. 
A total of 70,622 interceptions of insects and plant diseases were 
made during the year. A summary of the interceptions appears in 
table 18. 
Table 18. — Number of interceptions of insects and plant diseases made during the 
fixcal year 1940 
Port 
Cargo 
Stores 
Baggage 
Quarters 
Mail 
Total 
In- 
sects 
Dis- 
eases 
In- 
sects 
Dis- 
eases 
In- 
sects 

Dis- 
eases 
In- 
sects 
Dis- 
eases 
In- 
sects 
Dis- 
eases 
In- 
sects 
Dis- 
eases 
Baltimore . . 
48 
7 
48 
23 
4 



I 

107 
30 
14 
6 


47 
15 



61 
21 
Boston 
136 
98 
128 
61 
20 
4 
23 
15 
87 
15 
394 
193 
Brownsville 
775 
77 
12 
2 
6, 659 
3, 100 


1 
1 
7,447 
3, 180 
Buffalo ... 
41 
54 

1 

2 
5 

15 
13 
61 
70 
Calexico.. .__ 
1 
1 


499 
81 

01 

500 
82 
Charleston.- 
115 
1 
4 






o 
119 
1 
Chicago.- — . . - . . 
33 



1 



28 
1 
62 
1 
Del Rio 




305 
1 




305 
1 
2 
20 
2 
5 
2 



26 
11 
32 
36 
Douglas. . . 

2 


485 
6 


8 

485 
8 
Eagle Pass - - . 
193 
2 


741 
36 


o 
934 
38 
1, 048 
228 


3,714 
789 
6 

9 
4, 777 
1. 019 
Galveston 
244 
12 
45 
207 
2 

23 
8 

I 
314 
227 






108 



108 

Hidalgo 
88 
16 


506 
500 
o 



594 
516 
Honolulu 2 .. 
131 

2 

51 

321 

159 

664 

Houston . 


102 
102 


7 

2 

111 
102 
Jacksonville 2 
8 
4 
44 
34 
4 

9 
2 


65 
40 


4 
3 
12 
2 




16 
5 
1,479 
07 


3, 702 
135 


23 
1 
5, 204 
203 
Los Angeles 2 _ 
1 



2 



2 

5 

Mercedes. ... 




101 
40 




101 
40 
Miami 2 3 ...... . 
101 
26 
13 
9 
282 
28 
220 
3 
2 

618 
66 
Mobile « 
18 

44 
31 
2 
o 
15 
2 


79 
33 
Xaco 
1 


70 
78 
12 



5 
79 
New Orleans ... 
380 
14 
100 
25 
27 
4 
22 
3 
536 
4< 
Newport Xews . . . 
1 

13 







14 
o 
Xew York ... 
2. 290 
5, 578 
410 
435 
495 
267 
51 
22 
1 
14 
3, 404 
6,316 
4,244 
3, 131 


6,004 
1,361 


o 
10, 253 
4. 492 
Norfolk .... . 
48 

25 
2 
1 



8 
o 
74 
2 
Pensacola 2 ... 






2 

o 
2 

Philadelphia 
90 
220 
108 
1,240 

11 
13 
44 
38 
33 
249 
1,548 
Port Arthur 
2 

24 
23 






26 
23 
Portland. Oreg 
24 
2 
34 
19 



01 9 

67 
21 
Presidio 
7 

2 

62 
6 


o 
o 
71 
6 
Roma... 




9 

o 

9 
4 
St. Albans 
1 



4 
I 

§ 
2 


St. Paul 

1 




3 
13 
9 
16 
10 
1 

24 
2 
5 

3 
2 

o 
33 
2 
San Francisco 2 
1,820 
257 
141 
7 
955 
9 
36 
o 
454 
142 
3. 406 
415 
San Juan. P. R 
28 



29 


14 
1 
71 
2 
San Pedro 2 
644 
8 
13 
351 
110 
259 
I 
8 
3 


1.262 
130 
San Ysidro . 
30 
o 

356 
4 




386 
17 
Savannah 
9 
4 
57 
18 
o 
o 

1 


66 
23 
Seattle 
361 
375 i 87 
104 
42 
23 
10 
102 
84 
615 
594 
Tampa 2 
5 
7 
3 
11 
o 
o 

30 
18 
"Washington, D. C 
1,614 
4. 262 


189 
37 

696 
391 
2, 499 
4. 690 
Total.... 
16, 076 
14, 493 
1, 834 
2, 466 25, 667 
6, 493 
902 
113 1,859 
719 46. 33S 24.2S4 
1 Closed August 4, 1939. 
2 Collaborators stationed at these ports. 
3 Includes 149 airplane interceptions made by Puhlic Health Service. 
! Includes interceptions made at Oulfport, Miss. 
Note.— Inspectors stationed at Puerto Rico made 5 interceptions of insects during their field and packing- 
house inspection of fruits and vegetables for shipment to the mainland. 
