279 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 1440 25,172 



Fumigated 17 96 



Burned 42 54 



Returned 6 6 



Total inspected 1505 25,328 



Of these shipments, 25,050 packages arrived as freight, 137 

 packages as mail matter and 141 packages as baggage of pas- 

 sengers and immigrants. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 43,174 bags of rice and 3201 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan and Oriental ports which, after a thorough 

 inspection, were found free from rice and bean pests and were 

 passed for entry into the Territory. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Thirty-one packages of fruit and 9 packages of vegetables 

 were taken from the baggage of passengers and immigrants from 

 foreign countries and destroyed by burning. A passenger from 

 Japan had a box full of land-dwelling hermit crabs, and, as none 

 of such exist in these islands, they were seized and were put in 

 a jar with alcohol as preservative. One package of chestnuts 

 found in Japanese baggage was infested with weevils and was 

 fumigated. Three packages of garden peas came by mail from 

 Japan which were found infested with the pea weevil and were 

 also treated to fumigation. A shipment of orchids arrived from 

 Singapore on August 3. A few of the plants were infested with 

 the striped mealybug (Psciidococciis virgatus). In the packing, 

 which was destroyed by burning, was found an ants' nest ( Tetra- 

 morium guineense), a corabid beetle, a cockroach, a dermested 

 beetle and a few spiders and millipeds. Another shipment of 

 plants from Singapore was infested with mealy bugs and scale 

 insects and in the packing was a leaf-eating beetle and some 

 ants {Prcnolepis species). A shipment of palms from Singa- 

 pore was free from pests, but in the soil we found an ants' nest 

 (Tetramorium guineense). A case containing samples of vari- 

 ous hard woods from the same locality was fumigated as a pre- 

 cautionary measure. Five lots of seeds and plants from for- 

 eign countries were returned as unmailable under ruling of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board of Washington, D. C as was also 

 an orchid brought from the Philippines by an officer of the 

 transport. 



