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simple form. Head, antennae, palpi, and thorax slate-grey ; 

 abdomen brown." — (Barrett.) 



Mr. Porritt has described the larva as pale, pinky, flesh- 

 coloured, with distinct pink lines ; head and mandibles dark 

 sienna-brown ; frontal plate darker brown. Feeds in December 

 on figs. 



Introduced by Mr. Gregson, September, 1871. 



Beitish Localities. — London ; Liverpool. In dried fruit 

 warehouses. 



Note. — Mr. Gregson first described this Ephestia as British 

 under the name of figulilella. Four years later Mr. Barrett re- 

 described the species, and changed the name to ficulella. Mr. 

 Meyrick, however, has shown us that both names must now give 

 way in favour of the much earlier one of desuetella, Walker, 

 the type of which is from Australia. The species will probably 

 be found wherever stocks of dried fruit are kept. 



Ephestia cahiritella, Zell. (PI. IV. fig. 12.) 



BEIT. REF. I — 



Ephestia cahiritella (Zeller, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 384) 

 Kagonot, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii. p. 24. 



Ephestia passulella, Barrett, E. M. M. xi; p. 271 (1875) 

 Buckler, E. M. M. xix. p. 104 (larva) ; Porritt, op. cit. 

 p. 142 ; South, Syn. List, p. 20 ; Leech, Brit. Pyral. p. 95 

 pi. xi. fig. 4 ; Ellis, Lep. Faun. Lane, and Chesh. p. 77. 



Expanse, 6 — 7 lines. " Fore wings narrow, especially at the 

 base ; costa less arched than in the preceding species. 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 wingpfuscous , 

 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. $ with one ochreous tuft at the base. Head, 

 antennae, palpi, thorax, and abdomen, yellowish fuscous. Antennas 

 simple beyond the thick basal joint." — (Barrett.) 



Introduced by Mr. Barrett, May, 1875. 



British Localities. — Grocers' warehouses in London and 

 many other towns. 



Distribution. — Cannes ; Vienna ; Egypt ; Siberia ; Japan ; 

 England ; Chili. 



Note. — Mr. Porritt says the species is double-brooded. He 

 bred imagines in September and October from ova deposited by 

 a female in the previous June. M. Kagonot observes that some 

 of the larvae hybernate, and change to pupae towards the end of 



