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fied. As he did not care to return them to the shipper they have 

 been burnt. A small lot of horse beans badly infested with the 

 bean weevil {Bniclius pisonim) were destroyed. 



Beneficial hisccts. 



Mr. Muir sent a box of soil containing the larvae and pupae 

 of the Japanese rose beetle supposed to be parasitized. I opened 

 the box in the presence of Mr. O. H. Swezey of the H. S. P. A. 

 Mr. Swezey removed all the insects and turned all the soil over 

 to me and it was taken to the garbage dump and burned. Mr. 

 Swezey reports that none of the parasites have so far hatched and 

 he has little hope for this sending, it having been too long on the 

 way. Mr. Swezey also received a tube containing Diptcra pupae 

 from Mr. Muir, but unfortunately these also arrived dead. 



Six lots of Japanese beetle fungus were distributed during the 

 month. Dr. Silvestri sent nine tin tubes containing dungfly mate- 

 rial. Only three tubes contained live beetles, fourteen in all, 

 which were liberated in the same locality as the other sendings. 

 This shipment left Italy June 14, arriving here July 3. All mate- 

 rial contained in the tubes was fumigated and burnt so as to 

 avoid accidental introduction of any plant germs or noxious in- 

 sects. Considerable time has been devoted to parasite work. 

 During the month 7.875 parasites were distributed on Oahu and 

 the other islands. Of this number 2,475 were Opius hnmilis for 

 the fruit fly and 2,000 were parasites for the hornfly; the rest 

 were liberated in vegetable gardens for the melon fly. During 

 the month we have been able to rear the three species of dungfly 

 parasites from material gathered in the field. We have also 

 obtained the Opius from several fruits gathered in localities about 

 Oahu and from cofifee gathered at Kona, Hawaii, we have reared 

 90 Opius from 100 fruitfly pupae. The parasite was first liberated 

 in Kona about a year ago so that the Opius no doubt is established 

 in that locality. 



Hilo Inspection. 



Brother M. Newell reports the arrival of seven steamers and 

 one sailing vessel at the port of Hilo, five of which brought vege- 

 table matter consisting of 215 lots and 2,443 packages. The 

 plants in one box of shrubs had the soil removed before delivery. 

 The steamer Anyo Maru arrived direct from Japan and brought 

 5.833 bags of rice and 195 bags of beans, all of which were found 

 free from weevils and passed. 



Inter-IsJand Inspection. 



During the month of Julv 60 steamers plving between the 

 islands were attended to and the following shipments were in- 

 spected and passed : 



