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DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
Honolulu, March 31, 1911. 
Honorable Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, Hawaii. 
Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit, as follows, my report of the 
work of the Division of Entomology for the month of March. 
During this month we boarded 34 vessels and we found fruits, 
vegetables and plants on 22 of them. 
The usual careful inspection was made of all shipments with 
the following result : 
Disposal ivifh principal causes. Lots Parcels 
Passed as free from pests 1281 21,037 
Fumigated 17 46 
Burned 49 51 
Total inspected 1347 21,134 
Rice Shipments. — The rice shipments during the month ex- 
ceeded those of the previous month, 20 7 AS bags having arrived. 
These shipments were carefully inspected and found free from 
weevils and other pests. 
Pests Intercepted. — As in the previous month plant shipments 
continued to arrive and about 4165 plants, trees and shrubs were 
examined. Having found previous shipments infested with scale 
insects and other pests I deemed it advisable, on account of the 
methods used in packing and the packing: materials, to subject 
these shipments to longer fumigation. The results have been 
very satisfactory and no injury to the shipments has resulted. 
We are very careful about fumigating plants and never attempt 
to do it if plants are at all moist from sweating en route, as in 
such condition fumigation will invariably injure the foliaee. 
On some orang-es in the baggage of a passenger from Fiji we 
found a new scale insect (Pinnaspis sp."). The white peach scale 
( Aulaeaspis pentagona) is frequently found on plants from the 
Orient, and although we have the pest here we always destroy 
badly infested plants. 
Some orange trees from Japan infested with the white fly 
(Aleyrodes eitri) were thoroughly fumigated first, then each tree 
was defoliated and cut back to stumps. This pest only infests the 
foliage, so that after our vigorous treatment no danger of the 
pest remained. 
All foliage and twies were burned. We discouraged the fur- 
ther shipments of such plants. 
Two species of ants (Strumigenys lewisi) and (Pheidole sp.) 
were found on Japanese plants, the first in stems of a tea plant, 
the latter in soil around bamboo. 
