BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
95 
PESTS INTERCEPTED 
During the fiscal year the inspectors and collaborators of the Bureau collected 
from foreign plants and plant products insects belonging to 1,680 recognized 
species and others distributed among 1,488 genera and families, fungi and 
bacteria belonging to 280 recognized species, plant-parasitic nematodes belonging 
to 14 recognized species, and numbers of interceptions of diseases caused by 
fungi, bacteria, nematodes, or other agents that could be referred to family, 
genus, or other group only. Many of these interceptions were of considerable 
economic or scientific importance. 
A total of 44,754 interceptions of insects and plant diseases were made during 
the fiscal year 1935. A summary of the interceptions appears in table 44. 
Table 44. — Number of interceptions of insects and plant diseases made during 
the fiscal year 1935 
Port 
Baltimore.-. 
Bellingham 
Blaine 
Boston i 
Brownsville— — 
Buffalo .- 
Calexico 
Charleston.-. __ 
Chicago 
Corpus Christi 2 
Del Rio 
Detroit 
Douglas 
Eagle Pass 
El Paso 
Fabens 3 „. 
Galveston __. 
Hawaii 
Hidalgo 
Houston 
Jacksonville 4 
Key West 4 
Laredo 
Los Angeles 4 
Miami 4 
Mobile* 
Naco 
New Orleans 
New York 
Nogales _• 
Norfolk... 
Pensacola 4 
Philadelphia 
Port Arthur 
Portland 
Presidio 
Rio Grande City 
Roma 
San Diego 4 
San Francisco 4 
San Juan 
San Pedro 4 
San Ysidro 
Sasabe 6 
Savannah 
Seattle 
Tampa 4 
Thayer 
Washington, D. C 
Ysleta 
Miscellaneous 
Total 
Cargo 
In- 
sects 
254 
6 
5 
81 
44 


441 
1 


42 

79 
133 

587 
93 
8 
20 
9 
3 
73(i 
2 
79 
079 
5 
908 
824 
1K3 
12 
5 
35 

1 
2 
553 
3 
247 
23 


260 
19 

83(1 

2 
Dis- 
31 
5 
4 
62 
3 
17 

15 
4 


49 

3 
39 

4 

4 
4 


16 

6 
3 

146 
2,907 
615 
4 

261 
1 
3 




40 
2 
4 
3 


65 
11 

359 


Stores 
In- 
sects 
109 
3 

192 
2 


9 

9 

3 

1 
1 

33 
4 

55 
20 
1 
1 

45 
116 

368 
3,573 
1 
4 
34 
438 
45 
2 



24 
181 
1 
193 

6 
24 
59 
16 




Dis- 
146 
3 

187 



58 
1 
23 

7 


1 

109 


174 
85 
6 


18 
385 

554 
1, 398 
8 
10 
80 
1,010 
135 
2 



54 

55 


52 
26 
74 




18,755 4.690 5.573 4,668 4,124 1,028 1,892 
In- 
sects 
1 
2 
58 
230 

30 



13 
1 
22 
95 
20S 
4 
3 
104 
39 
1 

11 
134 
1 
292 
2 
28 
86 
1,853 
389 


6 

4 
2 

3 
285 
83 
22 


75 
2 
1 
9 
4 

Dis- 
eases 
1 

2 
13 
4 

1 

1 



3 
5 
123 
1 


9 


2 
1 

15 
6 

23 
640 
123 


8 


1 
2 

1 
9 
1 
4 
4 


21 
1 

1 
2 

Quarters 
In- 
sects 
36 


IS 
26 


2 

1 






23 
1 

13 
3 
2 


126 
20 

250 
764 

5 
13 
207 
14 




5 
199 

43 


8 
log 
4 




Dis- 
eases 
Mail 
In- 
sects 
36 


36 




15 


19 


5 


10 


5 


12 
4 


29 
247 
6 


192 

2 



1 
285 





46 


1,454 

1 
Dis- 
426 2,502 1.096 32.846 11,908 
Total 
In- 
sects 
436 
11 
12 
385 
302 

30 
452 
16 
10 
13 
65 
22 
175 
347 
4 
646 
309 
47 
89 
37 
1 
865 
15 
546 
817 
33 
2,641 
13, 261 
3,379 
58 
47 
2,541 
71 
16 
39 
2 
1 
35 
1,503 
11 
566 
45 
6 
32 
549 
41 
1 
2,293 
4 
3 
Dis- 
eases 
214 
8 
6 
280 
7 
17 
1 
73 
13 
24 

87 
3 
8 
165 
1 
117 

13 
179 
92. 
8 
17 

47 
402 

8ia 
5,260 
748 
17 
80 
1,543 
139 
5 
1 
2 

8 
114 
4 
64 
7 

52 
202 
86 

979 
2 

1 Includes interceptions at Providence, R. I. 
2 Closed Dec. 6, 1934. 
3 Closed June 1, 1935. 
4 Collaborators stationed at these ports. 
s Includes interceptions at Gulfport, Miss. 
« Closed June 15, 1935. 
