INSPECTION OF SMYRNA FIGS IN BUREAU. 21 
Figs as prepared and exposed for sale in the Northern United 
States are seldom injured to any great extent after arrival. It is 
doubtful if a second generation is ever produced, except in useless 
material. There is, however, always the possibility that the larvae 
which are brought over here in consignments of dried figs, fruits, 
and other dry vegetable products may the following spring infest 
other food products, such as cereals, nuts, the seeds of cotton, flax, and 
others, which may be stored in the same buildings. 
INSPECTION OF SMYRNA FIGS IN THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
During the year 1909, from September to January, many samples 
of figs—243 to be exact—were examined in the Bureau of Chemistry. 
Small lots from these samples, containing in most cases a few dead 
insects and in many cases excreta, were referred to the Bureau 
of Entomology, but with such small lots it was not possible to get 
any very valuable data from an entomological standpoint. During 
1910, however, examination was made of a fair lot of samples, 30 
in all, some purchased in open market, some furnished by Mr. E. G. 
Smyth, who sent or brought them direct from Smyrna, Asia Minor, 
including both sterilized and unsterilized figs, and a lot of “ tapnets ” 
and other bagged figs from New York, as also some. samples fur- 
nished by the Dried Fruit Association of New York City, and 
one particularly bad sample furnished by the Bureau of Chem- 
istry. These were all carefully examined by the writer from the 
standpoint of actual injury by insects, and the following is his report 
and summary. This in turn is followed by a report made by the Bu- 
reau of Chemistry on the seizures of figs made in 1909 in New York 
City (see p. 28). 
CuTtNn. No. 588. 
Packages of figs sold in Washington, D. C., labeled “ Smyrna layer figs, Turkey 
brand, packed in Turkey, prepared with glucose, packed and guaranteed 
by Van Dyke & Catrevas, New York and Smyrna, Turkey, under U. S. A. 
Serial No. 14902.” 
Sample 1, purchased of a Greek fruit dealer, December 21, 1910, 
on being opened showed that the figs had evidently been washed. 
Of the 11 figs, which were all of fair flavor except for slight acidity, 
there was evidence of attack by a single larva of the fig moth, its 
work being apparent on 3 figs. One parasitic cocoon and a trace of 
excreta were present on the 3 figs which were not quite perfect. 
Sample 2, from same Greek, December 5, 1910, showed no evidence 
of insect attack, but one fig was considerably soured. 
Sample 3, from same Greek, December 5, 1910, contained a single 
dead larva. 
