212 EPHESTIA FIOULELLA. 



volume, were several of an Ephestia, from which on 

 the 27th of August following a single specimen was 

 bred, agreeing perfectly with an example in my 

 cabinet named E. ficulella. 



Length about half an inch and of average bulk ; 

 head highly polished; it has the lobes rounded, and 

 the mandibles prominent ; body cylindrical, tapering 

 anteriorly, the head being the narrowest segment. 

 There is a distinct polished plate on the second seg- 

 ment behind the head, and a small similarly polished 

 space on the anal segment; skin very glossy and 

 rather wrinkled. 



The ground colour is a pale pinky flesh, varying in 

 depth of colour in different specimens ; head and 

 mandibles dark sienna-brown ; frontal plate still 

 darker brown, almost black ; dorsal, subdorsal, and 

 spiracular lines all very distinct, and about equal in 

 width, pink; and there is still another, but a narrower, 

 of these pink lines below the spiracles ; spiracles 

 minute, dark brown ; tubercles large, raised, and 

 polished, very dark brown, in some specimens nearly 

 black. 



Ventral surface greyish-white, with a faint pink 

 tinge ; legs and prolegs tipped with brown. 



Feeds on dried figs. (George T. Porritt, 5th June, 

 1880; E.M.M., July, 1880, XVII, 44.) 



Ephestia ficella. 

 Plate CLVI, fig. 7. 



On the 15th of October, 1874, Mr. Barrett sent me 

 a few eggs of this species, laid for the most part 

 singly and in small groups of three or four together, 

 and on the 20th he sent me a few more ; in both 

 instances they came loose in a quill. 



The egg is broadly oval in shape, most minutely 

 pitted, and slightly glistening ; in colour a pale 

 whitish creamy tint, over which a few hours before 



