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The preceding tables give an exact account of the amount of 

 lots and packages of fruit, vegetables, seeds and plants arriving at 

 Honolulu, and Hilo during each month of 1913 and 1914; also the 

 disposal of the various shipments. A separate table for each year 

 also shows the foreign shipments and their disposal. ISTo fruits or 

 vegetables are allowed entry from any of the Oriental ports nor 

 from Australasia nor any of the Pacific Islands. All shipments 

 from Mexico and Central America direct or via Pacific Coast 

 ports are also prohibited. With our present facilities very few 

 plants are now hauled from one dock to another for treatnient, 

 these being from Pacific Coast ports only, and mosto f these are 

 brought by the Matson ]^avigation Company's boats. We have 

 not as yet transferred our fumigating room from the old Matson 

 Wharf or Hackfeld Wharf, Pier 'No. 16, as there is no suitable 

 place for it on the new Matson Wharf, Pier J^o. 15, and as there 

 are possibilities of rearranging some of the wharves in the near 

 future, I thought best not to change the situation at the present 

 time. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



In our inspection work we naturally find a great variety of 

 pests. Some very injurious insects of other countries have been 

 discovered in our search during the biennial period. Probably the 

 most remarkable seizure ever made by the division took place in 

 the Post Office — a package of tree twigs from Japan aws held 

 for our inspection, and on opening the same hollow tree twigs 

 were found with the opening at each end plugged up with twisted 

 grass. A closer examination disclosed the fact that each twig 

 contained a good, fat live borer. We were at a loss to know the 

 object of this sending, but from a Japanese letter enclosed in the 

 package we got the following story: 



"Greetings ; this time I am sending you some medicine good 

 for consumption. Open the twigs and you will find a worm 

 (Sahutori-mushi) in each twig. Take out one and wrap it in 

 sembi or ame and swallow it alive. The juice of the living 

 worm is good for the disease. However, if the worms are dead, 

 you can bake them until black and powder them up and drink it 

 with sake. Those I send wil.l constitute a dose for one week. 

 (There were 12 live grubs in the package.) When you take the 

 worms please inform me if you digest the same. If jou should 

 find any such worms in Hawaii continue taking same for some 

 time, etc., etc." 



The worms found in the twigs represented two distinct orders 

 of insects. Some were the grubs of a large stem boring beetle 

 belonging to the Ceramhicidae ; the others were the larvae of some 

 stem boring moth. The package was destined to the Island of 



