PROTOPARCE CELEUS 123 



These caterpillavs were rather quiet and gave no 

 trouble, eating well, but not voraciously. Four days 

 later they molted again, and again were doubled in 

 length, being three quarters of an inch long. The 

 head was green, rough with white granules, and the 

 mouth-parts were gray. The body w^as just the green 

 of a tomato-leaf — of the under side — and had a broad 

 white subdorsal band from head to horn. Seven faint 

 yellow obliques showed. The horn was long, slender, 

 straight, green above and beneath, with black spines, 

 and white on the sides with white spines, the tij? end- 

 ing in two black spines. The legs were green, ringed 

 with gray, the props green, and the anal j^late was 

 edged with white. The spiracles were gray encircled 

 with white. 



The third molt took place in five days. The crawlers 

 were not quite an inch and a quarter long. They were 

 of the deeper green of the upper side of the leaf now, 

 granulated, and on the thoracic segments the granules 

 were sharjD like thorns, each set in a circle of darker 

 green. The obliques were yellow-white, the last pair 

 wider than the others and extending up the sides of 

 the caudal horn, which was almost black above and 

 beneath. The anal plate was edged with yellow- white. 

 The legs were gray, with white thorns on the outer, 

 and l:)lack dashes on the inner, side. The props were 

 green granulated with white. The spiracles were deep 

 orange, surrounded by a black line, then by a gray 

 l)and, except on the first segment, whei'e thej^ were 

 buff with no rings. 



The fourth molt followed in three days. The crawl- 

 ers were nearly two inches long and began to eat 



