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 DIVISION OF ENTOAIOLOGY 



Honokilu. September 30, 1914. 



Board of Commissioners of Agrieultiire and Forestry, Mono- 

 lulu. T. H. 



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

 formed by the Division of Entomology for the month of Septem- 

 ber, 1914, as follows : 



During the month 32 vessels arrived at the port of Honolulu, 

 of which 18 carried vegetable matter and one vessel moulding 

 sand. 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 1444 37,\57 



Fumigated 1 6 



Burned 12 27 



Returned 1 1 



Total inspected 1458 37,191 



Of these packages, 36,996 packages arrived as freight, 110 pack- 

 ages as baggage of passengers and immigrants, and 85 packages 

 through the postoffice. 



RICE AXI) r.EAN SHIPMENT.'^. 



During the montli 18,044 Ijags of rice and 1786 bags of l:)eans 

 arrived from Japan, and after careful inspecti(Mi were passed for 

 dehver}'. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Nine packages of fruit and one package of vegetables were 

 found in the l)aggage of passengers and immigrants from foreign 

 countries ; these, being contraband, were destroyed. Si.x bay 

 trees arriving from Cah.fornia were found slightly infested with 

 a leaf-curling f'syllid. 'Idle ])lants were fumigated and all in- 

 fested leaves were removed before delivery. Si.xteen crates of 

 California ])eaches were found infested with ])each-worm .liiar- 

 sia linatclhi and were destroyed by burning. '14iree packages of 

 ])lants arrived by the Ventura from Sydney, N. S. \\'., which were 

 free from pests, but the soil about them was renioxcd ])id'ore de- 

 livery. r)ne ])ackag"e of ])lants arrived from Uriti^h ("olumbia 

 1)y parcel post and was returned to sender as bi'ing i)rohibited 

 under the ])ostal regulations of the fcileral horlirnltural l)oard. 



IJENEI'UTAI, INSIXTS. 



During the month 80C0 jiarasites of fruit fly and horn l1y were 

 liberated. Of these, 3000 horn fly parasites were sent to Maui 



