The Eumenes 



find in the Eumenes' larder the same sort of 

 game that I saw long ago at Carpentras. 

 Time and distance have not altered the 

 nature of the provisions. 



I know one exception and one alone in 

 this fidelity to the ancestral diet. My ob- 

 servations mention a single dish that differs 

 greatly from those which accompany it. 

 This is a caterpillar of the Looper 

 group ^ with only three pairs of prolegs, 

 placed under the eighth, ninth and twelfth 

 segments. The body tapers slightly at 

 either end, is contracted at the junction of 

 the different rings and is pale green with 

 faint black veinings, visible under the magni- 

 fying-glass, and a few sparse black cilia. 

 Length: 15 miUimetres;' width: 2j^ milli- 

 metres.^ 



E. pomlformis also has her preferences. 

 Her game consists of small caterpillars 

 about 7 millimetres long by 1% wide.* 

 The body is pale green, pretty sharply con- 

 tracted at the junction of the segments. 

 The head is narrower than the rest of the 

 body and is spotted with brown. Pale ocel- 



1 Also known as the Measuring-worm, the caterpillar of 

 the Geometrid Moth. — Translator's Note. 



2 .585 inch. — Translator's Note. 



3 .098 inch. — Translator's Note. 



* .27 by .50 inch, — Translator's Note. 

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