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 DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



REPORT FOR JUNE. 



Honolulu, June 30. 1912. 

 Hon. Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit my report of the work of 

 the Division of Entomology for the month of June as follows : 



During this month there arrived 32 vessels of which 19 carried 

 vegetable matter. The usual careful inspection was made with 

 the following results : 



Disposal with principal causes. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 793 12,972 



Fumigated 9 179 



Burned 29 89 



Total inspected 8311 13,240 



Rice Shipiiients. 



24,672 bags of rice arrived from Japan during the month of 

 June and were passed as free from pests, after careful examina- 

 tion. 



Pests Intercepted. 



36 packages of fruit and 31 packages of vegetables were con- 

 fiscated from passenger;] and immigrants during the month. 

 Much of this material was found infested. Several shipments of 

 plants arrived from Manila on which were found ants, millipeds, 

 cockroaches and scale insects. 21 boxes of peaches from Cali- 

 fornia were infested with the peach moth (Aiiarsia lincatclla) 

 and were destroyed by burning in the incinerator. 



Hilo Inspection. 



Brother M. Newell reports the arrival of six vessels, 4 of which 

 carried vegetable matter consisting of 127 lots and 1,757 pack- 

 ages which were passed as free from pests, except one package 

 of plants which was infested with mites and maggots and was 

 destroyed. 



Inter-Island Inspection. 



During the month of June 58 steamers were attended to and 

 the following shipments were passed on : 

 410 bags of taro, 

 11 bags cocoanuts, 

 45 packages of various plants. 



Total 466 packages inspected and passed. 



