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narrower line, lies below the spiracles ; dorsal and anal 

 plates black-brown ; spii-acles minute, dark brown ; dots 

 large, raised, and polished, very dark brown, or nearly- 

 black; ventral surface greyish-white with a faint pink 

 tinge ; legs and prolegs tipped with brown. ((4. T. Porritt.) 

 November till May or June, and apparently a second 

 generation in September, on dried figs, cotton-cake, and oil- 

 cake. Probably on various imported dried fruits. 



Pupa apparently uudescribed. 



This species is also restricted mainly to warehouses of im- 

 ported dried fruits, and oil and cotton-cake, to oil mills, and 

 stores of similar materials. Sometimes, however, it is met 

 with in houses and places to which it must have been con- 

 vej^ed from such stores. It was separated and described 

 under this name in 1875, but had doubtless long been 

 known as a supposed variety of the preceding species. 

 Evidently it was at some period introduced from abroad, 

 and probably from America. Of this Mr. E. A. Atmore has 

 put upon record some interesting evidence. He says : " On 

 February 6, 1884, I was informed that numbers of small 

 moths were flying about a schooner which had just put 

 into our docks (at King's Lynn) with a cargo of decorticated 

 cotton-cake from Galveston, Texas. Next day I visited the 

 vessel ; the moths were there, not in hundreds only, but in 

 thousands. I found that whilst traversing the Atlantic a 

 gale had been encountered, and water had found its way 

 into the hold and wetted the cargo, causing it to heat. This 

 heat had apparently caused the moths to emerge much earlier 

 than would otherwise have been the case. As the process of 

 unloading was being proceeded with, the cotton-cake, packed 

 in bags, was removed, and numbers of the moths continually 

 flew through the hatchways into the open air. They did 

 not fly far, but settled down and soon became benumbed by 

 the cold outside. Upon examining the bags I found 



