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REPORT FOR MAY. 



Honoluln. May 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 May, 

 1915, as follows: 



During the month 53 vessels arrived at the port of Honolulu of 

 which 25 carried vegetable matter and one vessel moulding sand. 

 Twelve vessels came by the Panama Canal route. 



Disposal. Lots. Parcels. 



Passed as free from pests 792 18,340 



Fumigated 2 2 



Burned 73 79 



Returned 2 4 



Total inspected 869 18.425 



Of these shipments 18,047 packages arrived as freight, 192 

 packages through the postoffice and 186 packages as baggage of 

 passengers and immigrants. 



RICE AND BEAN SHIPMENTS. 



During the month 35.469 bags of Japanese rice, 50 bags of 

 Chinese rice, 3,792 bags of beans, 272 bags of corn from ^Man- 

 churia and 200 bags of buckwheat from Oriental ports arrived, 

 and after thorough inspection were found free from rice, bean 

 and grain pests and all shipments were allowed to be delivered. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Twenty-five lots of fruit and 38 lots of vegetables were taken 

 from the baggage of passengers and immigrants from foreign 

 countries and destroyed by burning. In the soil around a cherry 

 tree from Japan a few grubs of Anomala beetles were found, also 

 a colony of ants. A small package of beans in the mail from Jap- 

 an was infested with the common bean weevil Bnichns chinensis, 

 and was fumigated before delivery. A shipment of Hydrangea 

 plants from Pennsylvania was infested with Aphids and fumigat- 

 ed before delivery. Four packages of seeds and plants from for- 

 eign countries arriving by mail were returned to the sender under 

 the ruling of the Federal Horticultural Board as unmailable. A 

 lage quantity of tobacco belon.^ing to a firm here was stored in 

 our large fumigating house on Kilauea street and subjected to 

 fumisation on account of being infested with the tobacco beetle. 



