8 BULLETIN 536, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SOURCE OF HAWAIIAN INFESTATION. 



There is little doubt that the Mediterranean fruit fly was carried 

 to the Hawaiian Islands from Australia on one or more of the ships 



plying between the ports of these two countries. Before this fruit 

 fly was known to have become established about Honolulu, Compere, 

 as a traveler between Australia and Honolulu, observed C. capitata 

 larvse emerging from host fruits stored on the deck of his vessel and 



