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lated with yellow on the dorsum, — more so on the 

 sublateral area, — while the thoracic segments were 

 granulated all over and had a line of yellow granules. 

 The anal shield and props were speckled with blue- 

 black. The horn was green, black at the tip, rough 

 with blue-black thorns, long, turned backward, and 

 sharp. The spiracles were orange, and the obliques 

 yellow edged above with blue-black. The legs were 

 green, ringed with white and black, and the props 

 green, with a blue-black band. 



Before the fourth molt they fed for six days, then 

 molted, coming out an inch and three quarters long. 

 The head was smooth, green, with face-lines of light 

 green and black. The body was smooth, light green 

 on the back and darker elsewhere. The anal shield 

 was speckled with black. The obliques were very 

 bright yellow, edged above with blue-black. The 

 legs were green, with white and black at the tips, the 

 props green with black bands, and the spiracles orange. 



A second brood had the first molt in six days from 

 hatching, the second in three, the third in eleven, and 

 the fourth in seven. These caterpillars differed slightly 

 from the first brood. They had a line of white be- 

 tween the yellow and blue-black of the obliques, and 

 their horns were blue-green at the base, glassy yellow- 

 green behind, and whitish green in front, but changed 

 later to blue-green. 



Both broods fed for seven days after the last molt, 

 then stopped eating. The caterpihars were three and 

 three eighths inches long, having grown to this length 

 from one and one half inches in one week. They 

 grew very yellow-green. 



The pup86 were found in a few days, — less than a 



