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ordered returned to the Coast. This is the first large infested 
shipment which has arrived here for a long time, and it was so 
Ijadly infested that sorting over w^as out of the question. 
Several lots of sweet potatoes were again found in the Oriental 
baggage, some infested with the potato weevil and some showing 
disease spots as in previous shipments, and all were promptly 
destroyed. 
In corn seed from the United States we found the grain weevil 
Calandria graiiaria. 
Ornamental plants from Japan infested with scale insects 
Psciidaojiidia duplex and Aufacaspis pcntagona, also plant lice on 
pMne trees, Lachnus sp. 
In the mail from Florida, palms infested with scale insects and 
mealy bugs. 
Brother ^f. Xewell, inspector at Hilo, reports the arrival of 
nine vessels, four of which carried vegetable matter consisting of 
92 lots and 1117 parcels. The outer leaves of a shipment of cab- 
bage were removed on account of cabbage-leaf fungus. 
During the month much complaint continued to come to the 
office regarding the Japanese beetles and we were able to send 
out 54 lots of beetle fungus in large quantities. Parties furnish- 
ing the beetles were promptly supplied. We are inoculating 
beetles as fast as we get them. 
I also received two large boxes, estimated to contain 50,000 
ladybirds (Hippodamia convergens) from ^Ir. E. K. Carnes, 
superintendent of the State Insectary of the California State Com- 
mission of Horticulture. Half of these Avere liberated in the upper 
valleys and half in the taro lands, where plant lice were abundant. 
Xtry often the question has been asked "Hoiv do all the pests 
get into the country f In answer to the same I will state that 
during this month a package of sweet potato seed arrived by mail, 
marked ''merchandise," and passed the postal authorities as well 
as the Division of Entomology. It was only through the great 
interest for the welfare of the island shown by ]\Ir. J. B. Castle 
that we were able to examine this lot of potatoes and subject them 
to a dip in formaldehyde. He happened to get in touch with the 
party who received them and before planting them thought that 
I had better pass upon them. How many such packages go 
through the mail nobody knows, but it surely goes to show that- 
the chances for introducing pests are not all abandoned as yet. 
The party, of course, did not send these potatoes as merchandise 
to get them through w^ithout inspection, but probably thought 
that they would go cheaper through the mail by marking them 
''merchandise." I only hope that we shall have more citizens 
come forward like ^Ir. Castle and notify us if packages containing 
seeds and plants should happen to pass in under similar con- 
ditions. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Edw. ^I. Ehrhorx, 
Superintendent of Entomology. 
