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clusters of buds and found many more eggs; then, 

 on the very young leaves, came upon some tiny cater- 

 pillars with caudal horns. These had a reddish patch 

 just behind the base of the caudal horn, and this is 

 not usual in sphingid caterpillars. Most of those we 

 have reared have had no distinguishing marks when 

 first hatched, but have been plain green or yellowish 

 caterpillars with caudal horns. 



She put eggs into one tin and larvjB and a leaf or two 

 into a larger one, and carried them home. 



The eggs began hatching at one o'clock in the after- 

 noon, and the little caterpillars were almost a quarter 

 of an inch long, yellow-green, with the caudal horns 

 yellow and covered densely with black setae, and had a 

 white bristle at the tip of each. Just behind the horn 

 was a reddish patch. 



The empty shells were iridescent, and each cater- 

 pillar ate nearly all the shell from which it came. 

 They did not drink water as eagerly as most young 

 caterpillars, nor did they grow as green after eating, 

 though they ate for six days before molting. 



After this first molt they were less than half an inch 

 long, yellow-green, with a yellow subdorsal line from 

 head to horn, a green dorsal line, and a yellow trans- 

 verse line — like a thick fold of skin — between each 

 two abdominal segments. As usual with sphingid 

 larvae in the first two stages, they had short setie 

 all over. The head was yellow-green and bilobed, and 

 the feet and proj)s were yellow-green also. The horn 

 was long, slender, and rough with black setae, except 

 at the tip, which was white with white setie. The red- 

 dish spot remained behind the caudal horn. The anal 



