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Division of Entomology 



Honolulu, Hawaii, February 7, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of AgTiculture and Forestry, Honolulu, 

 Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit my report of the work 

 performed by the Division of Entomology for the month of Jan- 

 uary, 1916, as follows : 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 41 

 vessels, of which 25 brought vegetable matter and one sailing- 

 vessel brought sand from Midway Island. 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 859 20,372 



Fumigated 10 10 



Burned S2 52 



Returned 5 5 



Total inspected 926 20,439 



Of these shipments, 20,117 arrived as freight, 169 packages by 

 mail and 153 packages as baggage of passengers and immigrants. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. 



During the month 61,615 bags of rice and 2696 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japanese and Chinese ports, all of which after a 

 very careful examination was found free from pests and was 

 passed. 



Pests Intercepted. 



Two thousand seven hundred and ninety-three pieces of bag- 

 gage from foreign ports w^ere examined during the month, mostly 

 at the immigration station, and 49 lots of fruit were confiscated 

 and destroyed. One package of algaroba seeds from Manila was 

 swarming with Psocids and was fumigated before it was de- 

 livered. 



One camellia plant from Japan was infested with the chaff 

 scale {Parlatoria pergandei) and was destroyed. In the soil 

 around a package of plants from San Francisco were found a 

 few CJiryonielids; leaf eaters (Gastroidea cyanea) probably had 

 hatched from pupae in the soil. All soil was removed from the 

 plants and burned. 



A pear tree in the baggage of a Japanese immigrant was in- 

 fested with scale and destroyed by burning. One package of 

 citrus seeds from Japan and one package of ginseng roots from 



