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BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  OF  AGRICULTURE 
AND  FORESTRY. 
Division  of  Entomology. 
Honolulu,  Hawaii,  Dec.  1,  1909. 
Honorable  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Agriculture  and  Forestry, 
Honolulu,  Hawaii. 
Gentlemen : I respectfully  submit  my  report  of  the  work  of  the 
Division  of  Entomology  for  the  month  of  November. 
Of  30  vessels  boarded  we  found  fruit,  plants  and  vegetables  on 
17.  These  shipments  received  the  usual  rigid  inspection  and  were 
disposed  of  in  the  following  manner : 
Disposal  with  principal  causes.  Lots.  Parcels . 
Passed  as  free  from  pests 861  16,638 
Fumigated  before  releasing 9 16 
Burned 7 12 
Total  877  16,666 
POSSIBLE  PESTS  INTERCEPTED. 
From  a small  shipment  consisting  of  rice,  beans,  peas  and  other 
vegetable  seeds  brought  in  for  experiment  purposes  on  the  last 
day  of  October  per  steamer  China,  we  have  bred  the  following 
insects:  Two  species  of  moths  belonging  to  the  Tineidae,  the 
drug  beetle,  Sitodrepa  panicea ; two  weevils,  Calandra  oryza  and 
Calandra  liniaris  and  Palorus  ratzeburgi ; all  cosmopolitan  species. 
The  shipment  was  treated  with  carbon  bisulphide  for  24  hours 
and  after  finding  all  insects  dead  was  released. 
In  a shipment  consisting  of  three  baskets  of  Pomelos  from 
China  we  found  seven  species  of  scale  insects,  a lep’dopterous 
larva  boring  in  the  rind  and  a Cladosporium  species,  probably  C. 
citri,  infesting  the  skin.  The  shipment  was  burned. 
Several  small  lots  of  plants  were  found  infested  with  a few  of 
the  commoner  scale  insects  and  aphids  and  were  fumigated  before 
delivery. 
Only  one  sending  of  Queenbees  arrived  during  the  month,  and 
after  the  usual  custom  of  securing  the  Queen  in  a new  cage,  the 
old  cage  with  contents  was  burned. 
We  received  four  shipments  of  hornfly  parasites  from  Mr. 
Koebele,  three  of  these  containing  the  same  species  which  arrived 
last  month  and  all  were  turned  over  to  Mr.  O.  H.  Swezey.  I am 
pleased  to  be  able  to  report  that  three  large  colonies  of  home- 
reared parasites  (Alysids)  have  been  liberated  on  favorably 
located  dairies.  The  last  shipment  from  Mr.  Koebele  contained 
a good  colony  of  Aphodius  finitarius,  a carabid  beetle  which  may 
