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of ))ananas and pineapple waste for the production of alcohol. Banana 

 growers, especialh' on Hawaii, have had difficulty in securing- proper 

 transportation for their bananas, and at all times have some small or 

 inferior bunches which are not salable. It has been thought that it 

 might be profitable to utilize such inferior fruit, or fruit which could 

 not be shipped, in the manufacture of alcohol. 



In the canning of pineapples there is a large amount of waste, peel- 

 ings and cores amounting to aliout lO per cent of the weight of the 

 fruit. At present no use is made of this waste, and it seems too large 

 in amount not to be of some value. 



REPOET OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



By I». L. VAX Dine. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Necessary additions have l)een made during the year to the office 

 furniture and laboratory equipment. The records of the office are 

 kept on card indexes, according to modern systems on the mainland, 

 but modified to meet the requirements of one working without clerical 

 or other assistance. Many additions have been made to the entomo- 

 logical library, a catalogue of which has been prepared. The corres- 

 pondence continues to occupy a considerable portion of the time of 

 the entomologist, but much time is being saved by his being able to 

 place some of the information requested into the hands of the cor- 

 respondents through the various entomological publications of the 

 station. 



Acknowledgment is made for many courtesies from other workers, 

 and especially for the direct assistance given in the determination of 

 specimens and for other information by Dr. L. (). Howard and other 

 experts of the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL, ORGANIZATIONS IN HAWAII. 



The past year has been an important one in the history of the eco- 

 nomic entomology of the Hawaiian Islands. During this interval the 

 Territorial government has organized and equipped a division of ento- 

 mology, under the newly formed board of commissioners of agricul- 

 ture and forestry, for quarantine and inspection and the introduction 

 of the parasitic and predaceous enemies of insect pests. This depart- 

 ment of the Territorial board supplants the office of the Territorial 

 entomologist created by the provisional government of the Hawaiian 

 Islands under the commissioner of agriculture and forestry in 1893, 

 to which office ]\Ir. Albert Koel)ele was appointed. On May 18, 

 1903, immediately after the formation of the newl}- appointed board 

 of commissioners, Mr. Koebele was made superintendent of the 



