PLATE LXI 
Fig. i.—Cleaning bananas in Hawaii before shipment. Every bunch of bananas 
shipped from the plantations in Hawaii is carefully cleaned by the Chinese growers 
before being inspected for the presence of ripe, cracked, bruised, or decayed fruits. 
Fig. 2.—Tip of Chinese banana (Musa cavendishii), showing punctures made by the 
female Mediterranean fruit fly in attempts to deposit eggs within the peel. Though 
made under forced and abnormal conditions, while the fruit was still attached to the 
tree, and seven to nine days after it had become sufficiently mature for shipment, 
the 18 punctures were empty and but 2 were deep enough to contain eggs. 
