DESCRIPTION OF EARLIER STAG 11 
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES. 
Fore-wings narrow, especially at the base, costa less arched than in the preced- 
ing species [ficulella I'arr.J. Costal lai>i»et 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, antennae, 
palpi, thorax and abdomen yellowish fuscous. Antenna? simple beyond the thick 
basal joint. 
The wing expanse is from 14 to 20 millimeters. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Like other species of the genu>. the fig moth is supposedly of Asiatic 
origin. Judging from its abundance in Turkey in Asia that coun- 
try would seem to he what Packard terms the in.-ect's "metropolis; " 
in other words, its original or acquired locality of greater abun- 
dance. However that may be. it is now. judging by published and 
office records, as well distributed as perhaps any of the Phyciticke 
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. X. Y.: Washington, D. C: Milwaukee. Wis.; Calla. Ohio; 
Hershey. Pa.: Guthrie. Okla.: Wichita. Kans.; Miami, Fla.: Xew 
Orleans. Morse, and Lake Arthur. La.: Galveston, Dallas. Sherman. 
San Antonio. Xew Braunfels, Fort Worth. Wichita Fa IK. Beaumont, 
Houston. McKinney, and YA Campo. Tex. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE EARLIER STAGES. 
The egg. — The q^ is whitish when first laid but turn- after a few 
days to ochreous and. just before hatching, often, in parts, t<» orange. 
In form it is oval, sometime- approaching oblong-oval, often with a 
distinct nipple at one extremity. Its surface i> subopaque, strongly 
rugose; the longitudinal ruga 1 are coarse, short, arranged in rather 
irregular alternating rows of about 24 and. with the transverse 
smaller ruga', give a somewhat reticulated appearance. The smaller 
rugae are fine and cilia-like, radiating from the longitudinal one-. 
