DESCRIPTION OF EARLIER STAGES. 11 
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, 
Fore-wings narrow, especially at the base, costa less arched than in the preced- 
ing species [/iculella Barr.]. Costal lappet with a broad tuft of scales. Fore- 
wings pale fuscous with a yellowish tinge, scales large and coarse, and easily 
rubbed off. First transverse line at one-third the length of the wing, fuscous, 
ill-defined, straight, and very slightly oblique. Second line parallel with the 
hind margin, pale, faintly edged with fuscous, often nearly obsolete. Usual 
two dots on the disc oblique, fuscous, hardly discernible, cilia yellowish- 
fuscous. Hind-wings white, with scattered fuscous scales, and a faint brown 
margin, cilia white. Male with one ochreous tuft at the base. Head, antennz, 
palpi, thorax and abdomen yellowish fuscous. Antenne simple beyond the thick 
basal joint. 
The wing expanse is from 14 to 20 millimeters. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Like other species of the genus, the fig moth is supposedly of Asiatic 
origin. Judging from its abundance in Turkey in Asia that coun- 
try would seem to be what Packard terms the insect’s “ metropolis; ” 
in other words, its original or acquired locality of greatest abun- 
dance. However that may be, it is now, judging by published and 
office records, as well distributed as perhaps any of the Phycitide 
with the exception of the Indian-meal moth (Plodia interpunctella 
Hiibn.), which is more nearly omnivorous in habit, and, therefore, 
more nearly universal in occurrence. 
The known distribution includes Ceylon; Egypt; Smyrna, Turkey 
in Asia; China; Cochin China; Japan; Siberia; England; south-cen- 
tral and southern Europe; Venezuela; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Jamaica 
and Trinidad, British West Indies. In North America it is known in 
the following localities: Montreal, Canada; Milton, Mass.; New 
York, N. Y.; Washington, D. C.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Calla, Ohio; 
Hershey, Pa.; Guthrie, Okla.; Wichita, Kans.; Miami, Fla.; New 
Orleans, Morse, and Lake Arthur, La.; Galveston, Dallas, Sherman, 
San Antonio, New Braunfels, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Beaumont, 
Houston, McKinney, and El Campo, Tex. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE EARLIER STAGES. 
The egg—The egg is whitish when first laid but turns after a few 
days to ochreous and, just before hatching, often, in parts, to orange. 
In form it is oval, sometimes approaching oblong-oval, often with a 
distinct nipple at one extremity. Its surface is subopaque, strongly 
rugose; the lengitudinal rug are coarse, short, arranged in rather 
irregular alternating rows of about 24 and, with the transverse 
smaller rugee, give a somewhat reticulated appearance. The smaller 
ruge are fine and cilia-like, radiating from the longitudinal ones. 
