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interior, there seemed a possibility that the eggs were laid before the 
figs dropped from the trees. To determine if this were the case, 
hundreds of ripe or ripening figs on the trees were examined, but no 
eggs were found. 
The first search for eggs in an orchard was made at Xazli, Asia 
Minor, on August 8. The fruit was just ripening and none had 
begun to shrivel or dry. The figs we're closely examined, but no 
sign of Ephestia eggs was found. Ten days later a similar search 
for the eggs was made in an orchard at Kara Bounar, and. although 
the figs were much riper than previously and many were shriveling 
and dropping to the ground, the examination was fruitless of results. 
Both the outside of the skin and the interior of the eye of many figs 
were examined, but nothing having the appearance of fig-moth eggs 
was discovered. On the following day at Xazli figs were again 
examined in the orchard where observations Avere made on August 8. 
Still no eggs were revealed, even by the use of strong hand lenses. 
Many attempts were made to find eggs on figs on the trees in an 
orchard at Tchifte Kaive. between August 21 and 2G. A great many 
figs were cut open and the scales about the eye examined one by one, 
but no eggs were revealed. Several times, while examining figs, 
small, white, globular objects were found adhering to the skin. These, 
superficially, resembled the eggs of Ephestia, but when put under a 
good lens proved to be secretions of honey from the substance of the 
fig that had hardened on the outside. 
MOTHS IN THE ORCHARD. 
While search was being made for eggs in the orchard at Xazli a 
careful watch was kept for adults. The bark of trees was inspected, 
and debris and trash piles about the orchard were disturbed with a 
hope of arousing the moths. At Kara Bounar. August 18, reeds 
upon which the figs were drying were fruitlessly turned over in 
search of moths. The same was done on a later visit to Xazli. and 
vegetation in a vineyard closely adjoining a fig orchard was well 
shaken, but no moths were aroused. 
When it became too dark to see, trees were examined by use of 
electric bull's-eye lamps. Chrysopid adults were thus revealed in 
numbers, flying about the foliage, and had the fig moths been present 
they would without doubt have been revealed by the light. 
All efforts to locate moths about the trees, either in daylight or by 
the use of bull's-eye lamps, having failed, it was decided to climb a 
fig tree with an ordinary lantern and lie in wait for the appearance 
of the moths among the branches or foliage. This was done on 
August 25 in an orchard at Tchifte Kaive. Tn an hour's vigilance 
two moths were attracted to the light and a third seen living among 
the foliage. Such a scarcity of moths could not account for the 
