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December 28, the directors of the Hawaiian Poultry Association 
held a meeting in the Library Room. 
Very respectfully, 
Ralph S. Hosmer, 
Superintendent of Forestry. 
Division of Entomology. 
January 3, 1910. 
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 December. 
Of 31 vessels boarded we found fruits plants and vegetables on 
17. These shipments received the usual 
disposed of in the following manner : 
rigid inspection and were 
Disposal zvith principal causes. 
Lots. 
Parcels. 
Passed as free from pests 
640 
14,186 
Fumigated before releasing 
13 
20 
Burned 
11 
19 
Total 
664 
14,225 
POSSIBLE PESTS INTERCEPTED. 
The most important pest intercepted this month was the dreaded 
cane and banana borer ( Sphenophorus sordidus), a cousin of the 
borer which we now have and which causes us such losses. This 
pest was found in a small shipment of plant from Fiji, in the roots 
of two banana suckers. There were also several injurious scale 
insects on a few of the plants and these were destroved. We also 
found several land shells Opeas species, one snail Ulota simularis 
and a slug Veronicella species. From Phinchal there arrived some 
pineapple plants badly infested with a scale ( Chrysomphalus 
bromeliae) and as this pest does not exist here the plants were 
fumigated, and then burned. We also found two species of Mealy 
bugs (Pseudococcus longispinus and citri) on a Smilax plant, one 
on the foliage and one on the roots. One of the worst infested lots 
of oranges from Japan I have ever seen was found at the Immigra- 
tion Station while searching baggage. The oranges were literally 
covered with Cladosporium citri and several species of scale in- 
sects, all were promptly destroyed. 
