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REPORT  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  ENTO- 
MOLOGY FOR  AUGUST. 
Honolulu,  Hawaii,  August  31,  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  August: 
INSPECTION. 
We  boarded  28  vessels  and  examined  matter  brought  by  21  of 
them.  Our  examination  resulted  as  follows: 
Disposal  with  Principal  Causes.  Lots.  Parcels. 
Passed  as  free  from  pests 661  13,754 
Refused  landing 1 3 
Fumigated  before  releasing 3 6 
Burned  14  61 
Total  examined 679  13*824 
The  most  important  things  held  up  were  an  unknown  white  fly 
(Aleyrodes)  on  potted  clover  from  California;  alligator  pear 
mealy  bug  ( Pseudococcus  nipae)  on  Kcntia  belmoreana  from  an 
Ohio  greenhouse : finally,  Lepidopterous  and  other  larvae  in 
mango  seeds  from  Manila. 
This  is  the  season  when  many  of  the  peaches  imported  are 
badly  infested  with  the  caterpillar  of  the  peach  twig-moth 
( Anarsia  lineatella ),  and  to  guard  against  their  importation  we 
either  refused  landing  to  such  fruit  or  picked  it  over,  burning 
those  infested.  This  saved  merchants  from  total  loss. 
In  view  of  the  terrible  loss  fruit  flies  inflict  on  fruits  in  Aus- 
tralia, your  regulation  prohibiting  the  importation  of  fruit  from 
that  region,  whether  in  large  lots  or  small  ones,  is  strictly  en- 
forced. 
HILO  INSPECTION. 
On  his  work  in  Hilo,  Bro.  M.  Newell  writes  as  follows: 
Report  for  August. 
Eight  foreign  vessels,  125  lots,  1,646  parcels. 
Wormy  fruit  was  unusually  rare.  A few  cases  of  fruit  were 
thrown  away,  having  arrived  in  bad  condition. 
Some  River  spuds  were  again  imported,  but  being  free  from 
soil  were  allowed  to  pass.  The  importers  were,  however,  re- 
minded of  the  fact  that  it  is  a risky  thing  to  import  the  articles, 
and  they  will  have  to  abide  by  the  consequences. 
