118 CATERPILLARS AND THEIR MOTHS 



become yellow dots, not raised. The head had bright 

 yellow face-lines. The legs were green with red-brown 

 tips, and each had a black spot. The props were 

 green suffused with almost lilac. The anal shield was 

 edged with yellow, and the horn was blue-green at the 

 base, then yellow-green, then yellow at the tip, granu- 

 lated with blue-black above and beneath, the yellow 

 subdorsals extending part- way up the sides. The 

 spiracles were red with a white dot at each end, except 

 on the first segment, where the dots were clear yellow. 

 The obliques w^ere faint and lilac- whitish. In the first 

 brood the caudal horn was purplish, bluish, or reddish, 

 and there were dorsal red spots on the abdominal seg- 

 ments. These were lacking in the second brood. 

 The third and fourth segments were much swollen. 



The second brood gave still greater variety by 

 showing several caterpillars of a clear yellow-brown 

 color, with queer splashes of dark bottle-green, and 

 obliques of pinkish lilac. One molted a very pink- 

 brown, with i^ink obliques and subdorsals. In these 

 varieties the horn was blackish green with yellow tips. 

 Two of the larvae had one red spot each, on the dor- 

 sum. They ate voraciously and grew to a length of 

 about three inches. 



On the fifth day the first brood, and on the sixth 

 day the second brood, began to turn pink or pinkish 

 lilac, and stopped eating, then spun loose webs among 

 leaves, or fastened leaves to the tin. In three days 

 the second brood cast the caterpillar-skin, but the 

 first brood were quiet for seven days before the pupae 

 appeared. 



The pupse were of pale coffee-brown, suffused at 



