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STEAMSHIP AGENCIES RE-INSPECTION. 
It was found necessary in course of the month to communi- 
cate with the steamship agencies in this city and bring to their 
attention various points of the Jaw relative to inspection which 
seemed to have been overlooked by some of their officers. More 
detailed information, with suggestions as to remedies, were ren- 
dered to your Committee on Entomology. 
INSPECTION LAW AT HILO. 
Bro. Matthias Newell, the Board's Entomological Inspector at 
Hilo, has for some time past been complaining of the abuses of 
the inspection laws and disregard of his instructions by a number 
of the concerns involved in the process of importation. In re- 
sponse he has been supplied by this office with a number of copies 
of our circulars expounding the laws and regulations of inspec- 
tion. He has also been offered some suggestions on the modus 
operandi to avoid the difficulties complained of. His latest re- 
port is that all obstacles have been removed and he is satisfied 
nothing enters via port of Hilo without being inspected. 
ROUTINE AND OTHER WORK. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL LECTURES. 
It was my privilege in course of the month to deliver two even- 
ing lectures at our newly organized College of Agriculture. 
"Scale Insects'' and "Beneficial Insects" were the two subjects 
dwelt upon. I was fortunate to be supplied with lantern slides 
so that both lectures were well illustrated. It is gratifying to 
know that the Acting Dean of the College was sufficiently well 
pleased with the lectures to express his appreciation in writing. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL EXHIBIT. 
In order to make more room for the growing entomological 
library it was found necessary to transfer the entomological ex- 
hibit which was lodged on the Division library shelves. The 
exhibit was placed in the Board's Museum where it is believed 
more people will see it and benefit by it. 
SCALE-EATING LADYBIRD. 
From among the four species of beneficial insects received from 
Mr. Koebele some time ago and reported to the Board we suc- 
ceeded in releasing very few of one of them, the remainder of that 
species having died and no further laboratory breeding is car- 
ried on ; another is still alive and feeding, but as yet no young 
