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Asia and Islands of tlie Pacific. Too little is known 

 of many of tliese^ but it is safe to saj tliat many of them 

 would, no doubt, prove extremely troublesome to our beautiful 

 gardens. The fruit shipments from the Pacific Coast as a whole 

 arrive in a very clean condition, and the quality of these ship- 

 ments has vastly improved during the last two years. It was 

 found necessary to clean the boxes of several apple shipments 

 from San Francisco in which the larvae of the codling moth had 

 crawled and pupated, the fruit being in good, clean condition. 

 I can only account for this as being a case of careless storage 

 among inferior wormy fruit in some packing house on the Coast. 

 On one occasion a package of sugar cane, known as Japanese 

 sugar cane, arrived by mail from Florida, and was consigned to a 

 party on Maui. On examining the sugar cane I found it infested 

 with a disease, Colletotrichum falcatum, kindly determined for 

 me by Dr. H. L. Lyon, of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Associa- 

 tion. The package was burned in Lucas' mill, and the party re- 

 ceived a quantity of good clean Japanese cane from Mr, Agee, 

 of the H.S.P.A., at my request. 



PESTS IlSrTERCEPTEI) rN" COURSE OF INSPECTION. 



Unfortunately the identification of many species taken has 

 been left undone because of the great rush of work in other lines. 

 Jlowever, all material on hand is in good condition, with accurate 

 data, so that when time permits, the identification of the same can 

 be undertaken. 



Bugs {Hemiplera-Homopiera). 



Aradid sp., on orchids, Manila, 



Cicada sp., in soil and packing of plants, Japan, Manila. 



Reduviid sp. in plant packing, Manila. 



Pentatomid sp. in plant packing, Manila. 



Capsid sp. taken four times in plant packing, Manila. 



Hemipterous nymph,, in soil, Japan. 



Scale Insects. 



Aspidiolus cyanophylli on orchids, LT.S.A. 

 Aspidiotiis hartii on yams, Guam. 



Aspidiotus rapax on mistletoe, laurel and apples, U.S.A. 

 Chionaspis mussaendae on hibiscus, Samoa. 

 Chrysomphalus hiformis on orchids, Manila. 

 Coccus hesperidum on citrus, ]^ew York. 

 Dia\spis hoisduvalii on orchids, TsTew Jersey. 

 Fiorinia fioriniae on orchids Java, Strelitzia, California. 

 H emichionaspis minor on hibiscus, Samoa and cocoanuts, Fanning 

 Island. 



