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The ventral surface bluish-green at the divisions, and grass-green across the 
centre of each segment, and whitish-green on the two or three last segments ; the 
prolegs tipped with pinkish. 
The head pale pinkish or greenish, with a crimson or brown stripe on each side 
of the face, the mouth pink, and mandibles black, the whole face thickly studded 
with yellowish obtuse spines, with a few black ones, the longest pair on the crown 
black. 
The sub-dorsal spines reddish, and crimson at their tips, where they are 
branched with black, and below they are yellowish. 
When full fed it becomes rapidly paler, and then suspends itself by the anal 
prolegs to a stem of the honeysuckle or other surface, and hangs with its body 
downwards in a sinuous curve, with its head bent a little upwards facing the ab- 
domen, and remains motionless for three days, becoming whitish on the abdomen, 
and remaining very pale green on the thoracic segments. 
In the course of the third day, the creature seems to wake up, unbends its 
head, swings itself to and fro a few times, then stretches itself downwards in a 
long attenuated line, which causes a rupture of the skin close to the head, which 
is seen slowly to ascend, exposing the bare and soft shining parts below, from 
which a fiat and forked pair of horns grow out perceptibly as one beholds this won- 
derful process ; the skin continiaes to glide slowly upwards, and as the soft parts 
become exposed, they are seen to swell out laterally, and assume the very singular 
projections of the chrysalis, the skin of the old head gliding up the belly marks the 
progress of the disclosure, as the colour of the old and new surfaces are at this 
time alike but the new rather more shining and semi-transparent : occasionally 
during the bulging out of the soft parts, a kind of convulsive heave or two occurs, 
but otherwise it remains still until the creature is uncovered as far as the ninth or 
tenth segment, it then curves its anal extremity by a sudden twist laterally, and in 
a moment dexterously withdraws the tip of the anal segment from the prolegs by 
an opening on the back of the skin at that part ; at this critical moment one has 
time to see that the naked shining point is furnished with black hooks, and to ex- 
pect its fall, but in another moment it has forcibly pressed the curved tip with its 
hooks against the stem, close to its previous attachment of the anal prolegs, which 
has proved strong enough for the occasion. 
The creature now seems endowed with wonderful power and vigour ; it swings 
boldly to and fro, and undulates itself as if to gain longer swings, when presently 
the old skin that remains is seen to burst away and fall off, the chrysalis gradually 
becoming quiescent. 
The entire metamorphosis, from the first waking to the last movement, occu- 
pying nearly seven minutes. 
The chrysalis is very angular, and its wing-cases very projecting ; the dorsal 
surface of the thorax rises to a prominent ridge, and a little beyond it is a flat, 
round, and very projecting process ; on the back and from thence to the anal 
tip, the abdomen is sUghtly sinuous, and therefore hangs a little on one side ; 
two flat forked processes project from the head. Its colour at first is a greenish- 
white, but it gradually darkens, and in a few days the thorax and wing-cases are 
deep olive-green, the centre of the back of the abdomen bright apple-green, its tip 
and underside being dark brown, which forms on the back a broad band, including 
