67 

 DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Honolulu, January 15, 1916. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



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

 formed by the Division of Entomology for the month of Decem- 

 ber, 1915, as follows: 



During the month 39 vessels arrived at the port of Honolulu 

 of which 23 carried vegetable matter and one vessel moulding 

 sand. 



Disposal Lots Parcels 



Passed as free from pests 1259 35,760 



Fumigated 1 1 



Burned 70 70 



Returned . , 4 4 



Total 1334 35,835 



Of these shipments 35,535 packages arrived as freight, 129 

 packages as mail matter and 171 packages as baggage of passen- 

 gers and immigrants. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. 



During the month 19,126 bags of rice and 1487 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan and 1132 bags of corn from Manchuria 

 which, after thorough inspection, was passed as free from pests. 



Pests Intercepted. 



Fifty-four lots of fruit and. 9 lots of vegetables were taken 

 from passengers and immigrants coming from foreign countries 

 and were destroyed by burning. A package of citrus fruit in the 

 baggage of a Filipino when taken was found infested with a large 

 scale insect (Pseudaonidia trilohitiformis). Some orchids in a 

 shipment from New Jersey were infested with the orchid scales 

 {Chrysomphalus biforniis and Diaspis boisdiivalii). One package 

 of seeds and two packages of plants were found in the foreign 

 mail and were returned to the sender by the postmaster as being 

 unmailable under the ruling of the Federal Horticultural Board. 



Two shipments of beneficial insects were received from Mr. 

 Fred Muir from Manila through this division and turned over 

 to the H. S. P. A. after careful examination by the undersigned 

 at the Planters' station. 



