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Advice and Assistance. 



The following number of requests were made during the month 

 for advice and assistance : 



Visits made 8 



Advice by letter 4 



Advice by telephone 6 



Advice given at Nursery 12 



Very respectfully, 



David Haughs, 

 Forest Nurseryman. 



Division of Entomology 



Honolulu, Hawaii, August 31, 1917. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — During the month of August the insectary han- 

 dled 2,400. pupae of the melon fly, from which emerged 599 

 females and 510 males Opiiis fletcJieri. 



The distribution of parasites was as follows : 



Opiiis flctchcvi. 



Females Males 



Oahu— 



Fort Ruger 75 50 



Sheridan Street 285 215 



Kauai — 



Kealia 75 50 



Galesus. 



Oahu— 



Kalihi 20 25 



Chalcid. 



Oahu— 



Kalihi 300 



Tetrastichus. 



Oahu— 



Kalihi 400 



