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Division of Entomology 



REPORT FOR MARCH. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, April 14, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, 

 Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit my report of the work 

 performed by the Division of Entomology for the month of 

 March, 1916, as follows: 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 38 

 vessels, of which 27 carried vegetable matter. 



Disposal. 



Lots. .Packages. 



Passed as free from pests 1113 25,509 



Fumigated 5 6 



Burned 70 93 



Total inspected 1188 25,608 



Of these shipments 25,176 packages arrived as freight, 272 

 packages by mail and 160 packages as baggage of passengers 

 and immigrants. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 23,846 bags of rice and 3261 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan and Oriental ports which, after a careful 

 examination, were found free from pests. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Two thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight pieces of foreign 

 baggage were examined during the month, mostly at the U. S. 

 Immigration Station, and 50 lots of fruit and 7 lots of vegetables 

 were confiscated and destroyed by burning. Twenty-five banana 

 shoots from Singapore were destroyed as being prohibited from 

 entry into the Territory under Rule VHI of the Board ; 1 orna- 

 mental plant found in baggage and infested with Aleyrodes, was 

 fumigated before delivery ; 1 lot of citrus seeds from Portugal 

 found in a package at the Post Office was destroyed ; 2 flowering 

 cherry trees found in the baggage of a Japanese immigrant were 

 fumigated on account of scale insects {Diaspis pentagona), and 

 after holding same for two weeks were destroyed by burning, 

 as the owner failed to call for them. Two small plants were 

 treated as above and all soil removed before deliverv. One 



