139 

 DIVISIOX OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



Honolulu. December 31, 1913. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit herewith a brief re- 

 port covering the various lines of work carried on by the Divi- 

 sion of Entomology during the calendar year, 1913. 



The principal and most important work of my Division during 

 the year consisted of the usual quarantine inspection of all agri- 

 cultural and horticultural products which were shipped into the 

 Territory from the mainland and foreign countries. In addition 

 to this work, a thorough inspection of all fruits, vegetables and 

 plants going from the Island of Oahu to the other islands has 

 been carried on during this period. There was also attached to 

 this general work the introduction, care and distribution of sev- 

 eral parasites of the ^Mediterranean fruitfly and the hornfly. This 

 work, although connected with my Division, was under the direct 

 supervision of W. M. Giffard, Esq., president of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, and only on special occasions were my 

 services required. The personnel of this branch, as well as a re- 

 view of the work done, has been published in Bulletin No. 3 of the 

 Division of Entomology, which Bulletin is in itself a complete re- 

 port and was recommended by me for publication and appeared 

 at the end of the year. 



During the year the fruitfly control work by clean culture 

 methods, as instituted by the Board of Agriculture and Forestry 

 in November, 1911, has been continued by the Bureau of En- 

 tomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, of V/ashing- 

 ton, D. C., under the superintendence of Dr. E. A. Back, in 

 charge of Mediterranean fruitfly investigations. Fie has also had 

 direct charge of the inspection of all banana shipments to the 

 Pacific coast. Results of this work will no doubt be reported by 

 Dr. Back to the Bureau of Entomology and in due time will 

 appear. 



Staff. 



During the first half of the year the staff of the Division of 

 Entomology consisted of the writer as superintendent and chief 

 inspector; ^Ir. D. B. Kuhns, assistant inspector; Messrs. Edward 

 Drew, Robert W. Kanakanui and Isaac Kahele, as assistants on 

 the wharves. On June 3rd, 1913, Mr. J. C. Bridwell was ap- 

 pointed assistant superintendent of entomology. On account of 

 the unexpected developments in breeding and distributing the 

 introduced parasites of the fruitfly and owing to the difficulty of 

 finding proper men for such work here, he was immediately de- 



