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tacles on the back of the segment next the head. In color it is green 

 and brown ; across the neck is a band of white, on which are spots of 

 light blue ; in shape this band is something like a half moon. There 

 is also a band of brown in front of this with a spot at each end, in the 

 center of which is a tiny dot of brown and above it a line of pale 

 blue. Length about two and a half inches. 



I have always found the larvae resting on the top side of a broad 

 green leaf (named for me as Thespesia populnea). The first time I 

 found several together and thought them most uncanny looking 

 creatures. The butterfly is very rare, being found, so far as I know, 

 in and near Bath in S. Thomas of East and near Moneaque and Union 

 Hill in S. Anns. 



Papilio pelaus Fahr. 



The larva is brown ; a pair of short subdorsal tubercles on each of 

 the first four body segments ; a dash of creamy white on the side of 

 the body. 



Aganisthos odius Fabr. 



The caterpillar feeds on the leaves of the trumpet tree. When 

 fully grown is it very pretty and measures two and three-fourths inches 

 in length. Its colors are light green and brown in alternate bands, 

 with rows of branching spines, the middle ones black, those on the 

 sides white. The face is cream colored with black marks. Two days 

 before changing to chrysalis the whole larva turns a bright yellow color 

 with orange marks. The pupa is suspended by the tail ; pale yellow 

 at first, changing afterwards to a red-brown with darker markings. 



Heterochroa iphicia Linn. 



This most curious caterpillar is about one inch long, of a dull 

 dark brown, the head a darker color with sharp short spines of reddish 

 brown around it. On first segments are two brown horns with sharp 

 points bending over the head ; from this to the end of the third seg- 

 ment is silvery gray ; then two tiny horns bending backward. On 

 the ninth and tenth segments on the back are two branching stellate 

 spines; on the other segments tiny spines at the sides. The whole 

 larva is a mi.xture of brown and gray ; it rolls itself up on the outside 

 of a leaf and looks so much like dirt that I have passed it for such. 



The chr)'salis is attached by the tail to a leaf. It is of a pretty 

 fawn color ; the under side is reddish and glitters like gold. The 



