PHYCITIDM—EPHESTIA. 5: 



Lakva. Head small, a little narrower than the second 

 segment, polished, brown, mandibles and the shining dorsal 

 plate darker sienna-brown ; body obese, cylindrical, a little 

 flattened beneath, tapering at each extremity, the skin 

 smooth and glossy, greyish-white, strongly tinged with 

 pink ; the pulsating dorsal vessel shows through the skin as 

 a darker grey dorsal stripe ; no other stripes ; raised dots 

 brown and conspicuous; ventral surface, legs and prolegs 

 yellowish-white. 



January to May and June, probably feeding through the 

 winter, on cork in warehouses ; also on figs, currants, raisins, 

 and almonds, when stored. 



Pupa apjiarently undescribed. 



This insect is almost confined to large warehouses of im- 

 ported goods ; although it has been known as British for 

 over half a century, it has scarcely ever been taken here 

 except near to, or in, such warehouses ; and there can be 

 little or no doubt that at some period it was imported from 

 abroad, though whence there is no evidence to show. 

 Although it has been reared from dried fruits, I found it 

 to be very scarce in the extensive dried fruit warehouses 

 which I was allowed to examine in the Port of London ; 

 but on the one occasion on which a warehouse devoted 

 to cork was examined, although so late in the season that 

 few of the living moths were found, the remains of dead yet 

 recognisable specimens in windows and spiders' webs were in 

 such abundance as strongly to confirm the evidence obtained 

 by the late Mr. F. Bond, as to cork being the usual food of 

 this species. Probably the large majority of specimens in our 

 collections have been obtained from this favoured centre in the 

 Eastern portion of the City of London ; but Mr. Webb records its 

 occurrence at Dover, Mr. Fletcher in Hants, and Mr. Melville 

 at Prestwich, Lancashire. It is also said to have occurred at 

 Leeds and York, and even in shops at Glasgow. Abroad it 



