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Pests Intercepted. 
A large consignment of corn from Japan was found infested 
with the grain weevil Calandria linearis and a Lepidopteroiis 
larva, and after a long fumigation and reinspection was released, 
all insects being dead. 
Some ferns from California were infested with scale Hemi- 
chionasis aspidisfral, and were fumigated. Sandpears from Japan 
and oranges from Fiji were likewise infested with scale insects, 
but fruit being prohibited from those sections, the fruit was de- 
stroyed. 
Brother M. Newell, inspector at Hilo, reports the arrival of 
nine vessels, three of which carried vegetable matter. He found 
107 lots, consisting of 1230 parcels, all of which was passed as 
free from pests. 
During the month I forwarded a lot of Staphilinid beetles 
from the Coast with instructions to liberate where maggot-infested 
fruit or vegetables could be found. These beetles are of great 
value to the vegetable growers of the Coast, feeding on cut- 
worms and radish, onion and cabbage maggots. 
Six packages of Japanese beetle fungus were distributed to 
applicants. 
During the month of September 32 vessels were boarded and 
fruit, vegetables and plants were found on 21 of them with the 
following results : 
Disposal zvith principal causes. Lots. Parcels. 
Passed as free from pests 1053 21,201 
Burned 19 20 
Fumigated 7 9 
Total inspected 1079 21,230 
Of rice, 22,497 bags arrived and were passed as free from 
pests. 
Pests Intercepted. 
One hundred and twenty bags of Japanese beans were found 
infested with a moth larva Gelechiid sp., and after a thorough 
fumigation with carbon bisulphid they were released. A box of 
artichoke flowers was found infested with ants, the common 
black ant Formica nigra, and after fumigation was passed. One 
box of raspberry plants, badly infested with fungus (orange rust, 
(Coeoma luminatum), was burned. 
Beneficial Insects. 
Returning from the Coast, I brought back another colony of 
Staphilinid beetles, and 1 am endeavoring to rear further colonies 
from these. 
