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in Samoa, might possibly become pests if they reach Hawaii, the 
same as the leafhopper from Australia became such a bad pest, 
whereas it was not a bad one in Australia. 
The most of the coconut insects are not present in Hawaii 
either. The leaf-roller that we do have, however, causes the 
leaves to look more dilapidated than they do in Samoa with 
several kinds of insects feeding on them. Our one pest on 
coconut leaves is too much, we surely do not want any more. 
The banana borer and the banana scab moth would ruin 
the banana industry in Hawaii if they should gain access here, 
and there is no telling what the papaia fruit-fly might do here, 
as it has been reported bred from pineapples from Fiji, though 
not fully substantiated. 
As Samoa 1s the closest tropical neighbor from which steam- 
ers are coming regularly, it is the most likely place from which 
some of the already widely distributed tropical insect pests 
could accidentally reach Hawai, and makes it urgent that a 
constant lookout be maintained to prevent as long as possible 
any more such pests arriving here. 
