200 



Plants 8 packages 



Fruit : 6 packages 



Total shipments refused 14 packages 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. M. Ehrhorn, 

 Superintendent of Entomology. 



REPORT FOR MAY. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, June 5, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, 

 Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit my report of the work 

 done by the Division of Entomology for the month of May, 1916, 

 as follows : 



During the month there arrived at the port of Honolulu 62 

 vessels, of which 27 carried vegetable matter and one vessel 

 moulding sand. Of these vessels, 14 passed through the Panama 

 Canal and called here for coal or provisions. 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 1253 20,039 



Fumigated 9 282 



Burned 71 71 



Returned 2 2 



Total inspected 1335 20,394 



Of these shipments 19,972 packages arrived as freight, 232 

 packages by mail and 190 packages as baggage of passengers and 

 immigrants. 



Rice and Bean Shipments. 



During the month 31,505 bags of rice arrived from Japan and 

 3645 bags of beans from Japan and Oriental ports, which, after 

 a careful examination, were found free from pests and allowed 

 to land. 



Pests Intercepted. « 



Approximately 3934 pieces of foreign baggage were examined 

 during the month, and 23 lots of fruit and 43 lots of vegetables 

 were found in the search. These were seized and destroyed by 

 burning. 



A larva of the orchid beetle, Acytheopeus aterrimus, was taken 

 in the stem of a phalaenopsis orchid in a shipment of these from 

 Manila. The whole shipment was fumigated with hydrocyanic 



