PKOTOPARCE CELEUS 1-27 



trayed him to the Other of Us. For these big and vora- 

 cious crawlers eat leaves and green and ripe tomatoes 

 with equal enjoyment after reaching the third or fourth 

 molt, though, as they cannot see, they do not select the 

 best tomatoes, as birds and wasps choose the best 2:)ears. 



We had been told of " huge black " caterpillars on 

 tomato-plants, and had seen records of " a dark form " 

 of celeits, but we could not find one for many years. 

 Then one day a man came to the piazza on his bicycle, 

 and handed us a tin coffee-can, saying, " I thought you 

 might like these, and the folks was glad to be quit of 

 them." One of Us opened the box and poured out 

 two or three full-grown celeus larva?, then a "huge 

 black " one, then two or three of a deep purple-brown 

 color, then two which looked like green overshot with 

 brown, as silk is sometimes. In all there were sixteen 

 big crawlers, and not one bit of food for them. Tomato- 

 leaves were soon provided, and the caterpillars were 

 sorted according to color. The next day One of Us 

 found several brown celeus and one almost l)lack one 

 in the doctor's garden, and then we were satisfied. It 

 is so much more satisfactory to find them one's self ! 



The " black " and brown ones are marked like the 

 green ones, and their pupa^ are not to be distinguished 

 from those of the green larvae. 



It is much easier to see the dark caterpillars on the 

 vines, for they are very conspicuous, but when they 

 crawl aljout on the ground before burrowing they 

 have a better chance of escaping notice than the green 

 ones. We followed a green celeus once when it left 

 the tomato-vine, to see how far it would go before 

 burrowing. The ground was soft all about, after 

 celeus crossed one path, yet the creature crawled 



