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 SUBFAMILY SPHINGIN.E 



SUBFAMILY, SPHINGl'NvE. 



PROTOPARCE CELEUS 



GENUS, PROTOPAR'CE. 



SPECIES, CE'LEUS (a king of Eleusis). 



WE hunted for these eggs on the tomato-plants, 

 and found plenty on the under side of leaves, 

 one or two eggs to a leaf, never more. They were 

 globular, and exactly of the leaf-color, and were 

 probably recently laid, for it was four or five days be- 

 fore they grew yellowish, and six before the first one 

 hatched. The little caterpillar was not quite a quarter 

 of an inch long, green, with sparse seta^, and a dark 

 gray, long, slender caudal horn which curved back- 

 ward. 



In five days the first molt came, and the larvre had 

 doubled in length. The head was smaller in propor- 

 tion to the body, round, green, and granulated. The 

 body was green, with transverse rows of granulations, 

 denser on the first three segments. The legs were 

 gray, the props green, and the caudal horn was dark 

 gray, slender, and curved backward. The spiracles, 

 usually inconspicuous at this early stage of larval life, 

 were plainly visible and dark gray. 



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