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Division of Entomology 



Honolulu, Hawaii, October 18, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to report that during the month of Oc- 

 tober there were produced in the Insectary 1936 females and 

 1572 males of Opins fletcheri (the new melon fly parasite), and 

 that 2210 females and 1329 males were liberated in the open, the 

 distributions being according to the following tabulation: 



Optus fletcheri. 



Females. Males. 



Oahu— 



Sheridan Street 450 275 



Kalihi 310 194 



Moanalua 750 450 



Palolo . . . 125 7S 



Kaawa . . . .• 100 40 



Nuuanu 50 20 



Castner 100 75 



Hawaii — 



Kurtistown 50 50 



Kailua 100 50 



Kauai — 



Kapaa 100 50 



Maui — 



Waiakoa 75 50 



Total 2210 1329 



We also produced and liberated 1000 Tctrastichiis — 4-00 at 

 Kalihi, Honolulu, Oahu, and 600 at Wailuku, Maui— and 200 

 Chalcids (Dirhinus) at Moanalua, Oahu. 



The propagation of the corn leaf-hopper ^gg parasite has gone 

 on without interruption. Of the number secured in cages, 110 

 were used to restock the cages and 126 were liberated in field 

 corn at Makiki Nursery. Ten were sent to Schofield to be lib- 

 erated in the vegetable garden of Company H, First Infantry, 

 where they are growing sweet corn for table use under irriga- 

 tion throughout the year. 



Respectfully submitted, 



D. T. FULLAWAY, 



Entomologist. 



