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DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Honolulu, December 31, 1915. 

 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 Decem- 

 ber, 1914, as follows : 



During this month 42 vessels arrived at the port of Flonolulu 

 of which 23 vessels carried vegetable matter and two vessels sand. 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 1,311 29,851 



Fumigated 9 1 ,393 



Burned 49 114 



Returned 6 138 



Total inspected 1,375 31,496 



Of these shipments 31,25*) packages arrived as freight, 119 

 packages through the postoffice, and 118 packages as baggage of 

 passengers and immigrants. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 8287 bags of rice and 3152 bags of beans 

 arrived from Japan which after careful inspection were found 

 free from pests and were passed for delivery. 



PESTS INTERCEPTl^.D. 



Thirty-three packages of fruit and eight packages of vegetables 

 were found in the baggage of passengers and immigrants from 

 foreign countries. These were seized and destroyed by burning. 

 137 crates of Tangerines from Japan via Seattle and San Fran- 

 cisco were ordered returned to the shi])per. These shi])ments 

 came on the S. S. Wilhelmina December 22n(l and the S. vS. IMa- 

 noa December 26th. As no fruit from Oriental ports directly or 

 indirectly is permitted t(j land under Rule 1 of the Board of Ag- 

 riculture and Forestry, I gave the consignees the option of either 

 returning them to the shipper or of burning them. It may be 

 interesting to note that after January 1, 1915, no citrus nursery 

 stock, including buds, scions and seeds, can be imported into the 

 United States or its Territories from foreign countries, under 

 Notice of Quarantine No. 19 of the Federal Horticultural Board 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. This is owing 

 to a dangerous disease of citrus plants known as the Citrus 

 Canker. 



