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BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  OF  AGRICULTURE 
AND  FORESTRY. 
Division  of  Entomology. 
REPORT  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  ENTO- 
MOLOGY FOR  JULY,  1909. 
Honolulu,  Hawaii,  August  1,  1909. 
Honorable  Board  of  Commissioners  of 
Agriculture  and  Forestry, 
Honolulu,  Hawaii. 
Gentlemen : I beg  to  report  herewith  on  the  work  of  the 
Division  of  Entomology  during  the  month  of  July: 
HONOLULU  INSPECTION. 
Of  31  vessels  boarded  we  found  live  vegetable  matter  on  17. 
This  received  the  usual  rigid  inspection  and  was  treated  in  the 
following  manner : 
Disposal  zmth  Principal  Causes. 
Lots. 
Parcels. 
Passed  as  free  from  pests 
980 
10,320 
Refused  landing 
2 
112 
Fumigated  before  releasing 
10 
15 
Burned  
12 
85 
Total  examined 
1,004 
10,532 
Posible  Pests  Intercepted. — It  is  difficult  to  point  out  with  cer- 
tainty which  of  a collection  of  possible  pests  would  have  proven 
the  more  destructive  were  it  not  held  up.  Upon  mango  seeds 
from  Manila  we  collected  living  caterpillars  and  pupae  of  an 
unknown  moth.  But  our  richest  harvest  we  gathered  in  a lot  of 
orchids  from  the  same  region.  There  were  scores  of  live  snout 
beetles,  cockroaches,  spiders,  pill  bugs,  scale  bugs,  scorpions. 
Diseased  yams  from  the  Orient  received  merited  treatment,  and 
wormy  peaches  and  apples  were  refused  landing. 
MAHUKONA  INSPECTION. 
On  the  10th  I received  word  from  Mr.  R.  R.  Elgin,  our  Honor- 
ary Inspector  at  that  port,  announcing  the  arrival  of  vegetables 
per  the  “James  H.  Bruce”  for  the  Hawaiian  Mercantile  Company 
of  Kohala.  He  submitted  samples  for  inspection.  After  con- 
sultation with  Mr.  Waterhouse  of  the  Entomological  Committee 
(Mr.  Dowsett  was  not  in  his  office),  Mr.  Elgin  was  advised  by 
