163 



96. S. M. McKeever - 



97. E. T. McGettigan '- 



98. F. Focke *^ 



99. O. R. & L. Co 59] 



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DIJISIOX OF EXTOMOLOGY 



Honolulu. March 31. 1912. 



Hon. Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen: I respectfully submit my report of the work of 

 the division of entomology for the month of ^Nlarch as follows : 



During this month we boarded 35 vessels and found vegetable 

 matter on 20 of them. Careful inspection of all shipments gave 

 the following results : 



Disposal U^ith Principal Causes. 



Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 512 14,435 



Fumigated 33 459 



•Burned 30 57 



Total inspected 575 14,951 



Rice Shipments. 



Thirty thousand four hundred and thirty-three bags of rice ar- 

 rived during the month of March and being found free from pests 

 were permitted to enter the Territory. 



Pests Intercepted. 



In a shipment of plants from Japan we found a colony of ants 

 (Formosa species) and some pupas of a tipulid in the soil and 

 a lepidopterous larva on the plants. All soil was washed off the 

 plants after these had been fumigated in the usual manner. A 

 passenger brought a bundle of large double flowering cherry trees. 

 We found them badly infested with two scale insects (Diaspis 

 pentagona and Psendaonidia duplex), also some brown velvet 

 lichen. The trees were refused entry and have been destroyed. 



One lot of orchids arrived from Java in a very dry state, appar- 

 ently dead, but we found a very lively colony of ants (Preiiolepis 

 species) in the package and fumigated the shipment. 



A small package of mangoes in the possession of a passenger 

 on the transport Logan from Manila was confiscated and 

 destroyed. 



