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Maui, and was seized and the twigs and larvae are the property of 

 the Board museum as alcoholic specimens. This illustrates an- 

 other channel through which some serious pest might enter the 

 Territory. Worm diet for the cure of the White Plague might be 

 all right in Japan, but we have not as yet heard of this method 

 being used here, and we surely shall not allow a trial with im- 

 ported borers such as were found in this mail package. Since the 

 arrival of the first package we found another with the same 

 species of borers, also a bamboo tube in the baggage of a Japan- 

 ese immigrant, containing 18 grubs; these, however, had been 

 baked beforehand. They also have added to our ever-groAving ex- 

 hibit. On several occasions we have found the grubs of the 

 Japanese rosebeetle, the Anomala beetle and Sericea Japonica 

 closely allied to it, also grubs of a small weevil attacking the 

 fibrous roots of plants in the soil attached to nursery stock coming 

 from Japan. These are all serious pests as we well know from 

 past experiences. I am told by Mr. F. Muir that the small weevil 

 is a very serious pest to potted plants in Japan. The Orchid borer 

 (Acytheopeus aterrimus) is frequently found in Dendrobiums 

 from the Philippines. The beetle would cause serious damage 

 to Orchids here and might for the lack of food attack other plants 

 if ever introduced. All Orchids are very carefully examined be- 

 fore they are permitted to enter the Territory. On two occasions 

 we found the larvae and pupae of a large Cicada. Once among the 

 roots of pot plants from Japan and again in the soil and pack- 

 ing of a shipment of Orchids from Manila, P.I. Cicadas Locusts 

 or Harvest flies, as they are commonly called, are very injurious 

 insects in many parts of the world. The seventeen year locust of 

 the United States has done such serious damage that volumes 

 have been written and thousands spent in the fight against it. 

 There are no Cicadas known in the Territorv. 



Another incident of a possible way by which pests could be 

 introduced was illustrated by the finding of two hairy caterpillars 

 crawling on the coat-sleeve of an immigration inspector while 

 on duty on board of an Oriental boat. A search was made for the 

 source of these caterpillars, and a plant belonging to the steamer 

 and located in the lobby near the stairs had been infested and 

 the foliage had been seriously eaten. ISTo other caterpillars were 

 found. The man had probably brushed against the plant or had 

 come in contact with it while standing near the same. It would 

 have been a very serious matter for the caterpillars to have been 

 carried off the steamer onto the dock, and they could have easily 

 dropped off of the sleeve on the street near some hedge or garden. 



A large number of insects in many orders, also slugs, 

 snails, crustaceans, centipeds and millipeds haA^e been taken 

 in the soil and packing around plants from Australia, 



