June, ’23] 
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confined to the four counties that were in the original infestation; Jackson, Hancock, 
Harrison, and Pearl River, except for tw r o properties in George County and one 
property in Adams County. In each of these cases, the inspectors have been able 
to account for the infestation. George County became infested through potato 
sacks that were brought from Pascagoula, Mississippi. The one farm in Adams 
County became infested by a direct shipment of infested sweet jjotatoes by express. 
Tt is now believed that the weevils have been completely eradicated from the one 
property in Adams County, and the two properties in George County.” 
Mr. H. Y. Gouldman, an inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board in Wash¬ 
ington, recently intercepted an interesting Balaninus in a small collection of chestnuts 
received by the Department of Agriculture from China. Mr. Gouldman has also 
recently collected what appears to be Ptilmu n tropicum (Matthews) or an allied spe¬ 
cies in old wood found in a box containing orchid plants from Cristobal, Canal Zone. 
This is reported to be one of the smallest beetles described in Biologica Centra- 
Americana. 
The fifth annual conference of the Western Plant Quarantine Board has been 
called for May 21, 22, and 23 at Phoenix, Arizona. This board is composed of the 
quarantine officers of the eleven western states, British Columbia, Ha waii and the 
northern distiict of Lower California. The purpose of the Board is to work toward 
uniform enforcement of quarantine regulations and to assist in the protection of 
the West from injurious insects and plant diseases not known to occur in these regions. 
Mr. M. J. Kerr, Plant Quarantine Inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board 
stationed at New Orleans, visited Mobile during the month of May for the purpose 
of determining from Customs records the volume of the foreign importations of 
plants and plant products arriving at that port. 
Mr. E. S. Jewell and Mr. V. J. Shiner motored from Laredo, Texas to San Ygnacio 
and Zapata, Texas for the purpose of consulting with the Customs officials and de¬ 
termining the amount of traffic entering the United States from Mexico and the 
likelihood of the entry of cotton seed and other contraband material at these ports. 
Facilities for the sterilization of broom corn are now available at the port of 
Boston. This is a very fortunate situation, since it will make possible the shipment 
to Boston for prompt sterilization of broom corn which arrived in New York during 
the early spring infested with larvae of the European Corn Borer. Although the 
entry of broom corn is restricted to the months of November to March inclusive, 
entry of this commodity will be permitted in the future at Boston throughout the 
year. 
Mr. W. M. Mann of the Bureau of Entomology left Washington early in January, 
and entered Mexico at Nogales, Ariz., to make a special investigation of the fruit fly 
situation in Mexico for the Federal Horticultural Board. 
Mr. W. B. Wood of the Federal Horticultural Board, during the month of Febru¬ 
ary, inspected the plants for distribution at the field stations of the Office of Foreign 
Seed and Plant Introduction at Savanah, Ga., and Brooksville and Miami, Fla. 
Mr. R. D. Kennedy, inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board in Washington, 
D. C., recently collected what appears to be Aspidiotus cryptoxanthus Ckll., on walnut 
cuttings, and Lepidosaphes flava var. hawaiiensis (Mask.) on chestnut cuttings from 
Shantung, China, two scale insects not known to occur in the United States. 
