130 CATERPILLARS AND THEIR MOTHS 



we found them — or the children, for two of the chil- 

 dren helped us hunt for them. The globular eggs 

 proved celeus, and their caterpillars have been de- 

 scribed separately. The ovoid eggs gave Carolina, but 

 we did not know this until the crawlers were almost 

 full fed, though we hoped for Carolina. There are so 

 many varieties of color and marks in celeus that we 

 did not feel sure that these were not merely forms 

 which we had not seen before, but we kept their his- 

 tory separate, hoping for Carolina. 



The newly hatched caterpillars were j^ellow, very 

 pale and empty-looking, with straight reddish caudal 

 horns. After eating their shells they began eating 

 little holes through the leaves, and soon grew green, 

 with a white subdorsal line from head to horn, while 

 the horn became brown at base, shading lighter to the 

 tip. 



The young celeus had a dark gray horn which 

 curved backward. 



In four days Carolina molted for the first time, and 

 the head was round, green, and rough with white 

 granules. The body was green, with white dots and 

 white subdorsals from head to horn. Celeus had no 

 subdorsals, or very faint ones. 



In Carolina the horn was dark brown, lighter at the 

 tip, very large at the base, but tapering rapidly to a 

 very slender upper part, and rough with short spines. 

 The next day white obliques appeared, crossing the 

 subdorsals and almost meeting on the dorsal line. 

 The larvae ate their skins. Celeus still had the horn 

 gray. 



The second molt came three days later. The head 



