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 UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE 
 AGRICULTURAL  RESEARCH  ADMINISTRATION 
 Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 Washington  25,    D.    C. 
 
 April  25,    19^6 
 
 B.E.P.Q.--1+11,  Supplement  No.  k 
 
 PLANT-QUARANTINE  IMPORT  RESTRICTIONS 
 REPUBLIC  OF  MEXICO 
 
 RESTRICTIONS  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  CORN  BORER 
 
 The  following  decree  became  effective  five  days  after  its  publica- 
 tion in  the  Diario  Of icial  on  February  7,    19^6: 
 
 "1  -  To  the  list  of  the  states  of  the  United  States  of  North 
 America,  published  on  July  8,  1931  in  the  Diario  Oficial  of  the 
 Federation,  shall  be  added  those  states  that  have  been  invaded  since 
 that  date  by  the  European  Corn  Borer  (Pyrausta  nubilalis  Hbn.),  the 
 complete  list  being  as  follows: 
 
 Connecticut,  Delaware,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Iowa,  Maine, 
 Maryland,  Massachusetts,  Michigan,  Missouri,  New  Hampshire, 
 New  Jersey,  New  York,  North  Carolina,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania, 
 Rhode  Island,  Vermont,  Virginia,  Wisconsin. 
 
 "2  -  Corn  importers  must  bear  in  mind  that  imports  of  the 
 grain  from  the  infested  regions  shall  be  permitted  only  for  con- 
 sumption or  industrial  use  and  for  such  uses  only  when  it  is  per- 
 fectly clean,  free  from  cobs,  and  is  fumigated  at  the  port  of 
 entry. 
 
 "3  -  Corn  imports  shall  be  subject  to  special  permits  which 
 shall  be  issued  by  the  Office  of  the  Director  General  of 
 Agriculture . " 
 
 Chief,  Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine