263 

 DIMSIOX OF ENTOMOLOGY, 



Honolulu. July 3L 1913. 

 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 July as follows : 



During the month 43 vessels arrived at the port of Honolulu, 

 of which 22 carried vegetable matter and one vessel mqulding 

 sand. 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 1025 18.392 



Fumigated 17 573 



Burned 43 135 



Returned 2 61 



Total inspected 1087 19.163 



Of these shipments 18.975 packages arrived as freight. 124 

 packages in the baggage of passengers and 64 packages in the 



luail. 



Rice. 



During the month 27.280 bags of rice arrived from Japan 

 and 2600 bags were found infested with live weevils, and the 

 larvae of the rice moth {Paralipsa modesta ). Arrangements were 

 immediately made with the consignees to fumigate the whole 

 shipment and as we are without adequate large room for such 

 work we used our small room capable of holding 200 bags and 

 used our large double oiled tarpaulin which covered 125 bags. 

 A double dose of hydrocyanic acid gas was used with good re- 

 sults and the rice was immediately taken to the mill for cleaning. 

 All the bags were marked fumigated at Kobe and the owners, 

 Alexander & Baldwin, had certificates stating that the rice had 

 been fumigated at Kobe. Nevertheless the whole shipment was 

 infested and this condition can be explained thus : Either not all 

 of the rice was fumigated and the infested bags reinfested the 

 rest of the shipment, or the rice was loaded on top of some in- 

 fested rice shipment going to San Francisco and became infested 

 through it. I have written to the California State commissioner 

 of horticulture asking him to take some action in regard to rice 

 shipments and called his attention to the various pests found on 

 rice shipments, ^leanwhile we are getting matters well planned 

 to erect a large fumigatory near the waterfront just for such 

 emergencies as we had this month. 



