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had led rae to anticipate ; indeed no description I had read 

 had given me any idea of the reality. The entire absence of 

 oblique lateral stripes at first induced the conclusion that 

 some mistake had been made in determining the species: 

 this idea, however, was soon dissipated, and was speedily 

 followed by the conviction that I had the larva of Sphinx 

 Convolvuli before me. The face when the creature is at rest 

 is held nearjy in a vertical position; the mouth, however, is 

 inclined slightly backwards towards the feet, which are 

 inclined forwards. It is very slightly convex, and notably 

 narrower than the 2nd segment, which partially receives it: 

 this segment is narrower than those which follow, and which 

 are of nearly equal substance to the 13th, and this is evidently 

 less than the rest, as usual in larvae ; on the 12th is an arcuate, 

 decurved, caudal horn, which is moderately stout at the base, 

 and tapers to an acute point; the body is transversely 

 wrinkled, and has manifest incisions separating the segments. 

 The colour of the head is green, with a slender black line 

 between the ch'eeks ; this forks at the lower extremity and 

 includes the mouth ; each cheek has two longitudinal black 

 stripes, whereof the exterior on each cheek slightly exceeds 

 the interior both in length and breadth. The body is bright 

 apple-green, with six longitudinal series of black spots, and 

 a narrow black medio-ventral stripe commencing on the 5th 

 segment and terminating on the 12th ; this narrow stripe is 

 interrupted between the 5th and 6th segments, and also 

 between the 6th and 7th : the medio-dorsal area is without 

 black markings, and the sub-dorsal area has a distinct series, 

 one on every segment, excepting the 2nd, 5th, and 6th ; each 

 spot is seated in the incision between the segments, and is 

 therefore double, part on the preceding, part on the following 

 segment; the anterior portion pointed and slightly oblique, 

 the posterior portion rounded : the last of this series on each 

 side is linear, oblique, and continuous with the caudal horn, 

 which is chestnut-brown with a black tip : the second series 

 of black spots on each side is lateral, and situated exactly 

 half-way between the series already described and the 

 spiracles ; in position these spots alternate with those in the 

 sub-dorsal series: the third series of black spots on each side 

 is spiracular; each spiracle is oblong and black, and is 

 surrounded with a very delicate pale circumscription ; each 



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