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During the month your Superintendent was able to visit Hilo 
and go over the work of the inspector, Brother M. Newell. I 
desire to state that I was greatly pleased to find the Inspector’s 
work very satisfactory. The equipment is good and everything 
appeared to be kept in a very neat condition. From general ap- 
pearances of the growth of Hilo we shall have to be prepared to 
broaden our work shortly and we shall have to provide something 
in the way of transportation for the Inspector, who now pays his 
own travelling expenses to and from the wharf, sometimes twice 
a day. 
I also had an opportunity to visit some of the Homesteads in 
Olaa as far as Mountain View. It was in this district that Brother 
Matthias liberated the large colonies of Hippodamia convergens, 
the aphis eating ladybird. We found no indication of aphis on 
the orange trees, where at the time of liberation the new growth 
was completely covered and the growth badly dwarft, the trees 
now look clean and were making new growth. We did not find 
any Hippodamias, but as there was no food for them present, we 
could hardly expect this. 
I also visited parts of Kauai during the latter part of this month 
and called on Mr. W. D. McBryde, our honorary inspector. I 
was agreeably surprised to find the new forest plantings looking 
so well, even new plants, only in the ground a short time, were 
making good headway. Mr. McBr>^de states that there ’were 
never any shipments of plants going from outside ports to Kauai 
and that all the shipments pass through Honolulu, this, of course, 
is the law, but now that homesteads are being established not only 
in Kauai, but on the other islands, we shall have to be prepared 
to sooner or later establish a thorough inter-island inspection and 
I would recommend that this matter be taken up by the Board 
of Agriculture and Forestry and presented to the incoming legis- 
lature. We have now certain pests on some of the islands which 
do not exist on others. By establishing inter-island inspection it 
will be possible to prevent the spread of these pests into new 
territory. 
Attached hereto I submit a report of the Assistant Entomolo- 
gist, Mr. H. O. Marsh, who has made a fairly good start with 
field experiments. 
Very truly yours, 
E. M. Ehrhorn, 
Superintendent of Entomology. 
