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 DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Honolulu, June 30, 1914. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : I respectfully submit my report of the work per- 

 formed by the division of entomology for the month of June, 

 1914, as follows: 



During the month 35 vessels arrived at the port of Honolulu, 

 of which 24 carried vegetable matter and one vessel molding 

 sand. 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 1308 20,071 



Fumigated 1 1 



Burned 48 48 



Returned 1 1 



Total inspected 1358 20,121 



Of these shipments, 19,892 packages arrived as freight, 112 

 packages as baggage of passengers and immigrants, and 117 

 packages by the U. S. mail. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 34,981 bags of rice and 3521 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan wdiich were allowed to land after thorough 

 inspection. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Twenty-nine packages of fruit and 15 packages of vegetables 

 were found in the baggage of passengers and immigrants from 

 foreign countries, all of which, being prohibited, were destroyed. 

 One hundred and six boxes of apples from the Pacific Coast had 

 to be overhauled on account of having been packed in moth-in- 

 fested boxes, the fruit not showing any infestation. One box of 

 plants from California was found infested with the common 

 greenhouse whitefly and the plants were fumigated before de- 

 livery. 



One package of plants arriving from Manila without a permit 

 from the Federal Horticultural Board was returned to the shipper. 



During the month two packages of medicinal worms arrived, 

 one by parcel post, in which the worms were very much alive ; in 

 fact, one moth had almost emerged from the pupa. This ship- 

 ment was identical with the one destroyed in the month of Feb- 

 ruary, but no instructions accompanied the sending. The other 

 package consisted of a tube made out of a joint of bamboo, sawed 



