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two segments, which were very pale green, as was the 

 head. All were rough. There was a pale yellow sub- 

 dorsal line from the head to the tip of the anal props, 

 and there were faint, pale green obliques, rougher 

 than the body. The anal props had a projection in 

 the rear, like the train of a dress. The props were 

 pale green, the legs pale green with red tips, and the 

 horn was bright carmine, short, straight, and very per- 

 pendicular — rough also. 



The little caterpillars were very active, began feed- 

 ing very soon, and some ate all of their egg-shell, 

 while others ate only enough to make their way out. 

 They rested " standing on their hind legs," as one of 

 the children said, holding the midrib of a leaf with 

 the anal props, and raising the rest of the body in the 

 air, not quite vertically. 



They molted in four days, were nearly twice as long 

 as before, and had heads not quite triangular in shape 

 and bifid at the apex, or looking so because the apex 

 ended in two large yellow granules. The whole head 

 was studded with yellow granules and had yellow 

 face-lines. The body was dark green, with subdorsals 

 and obliques of bright yellow granules, the obliques 

 meeting on the dorsal line. The first segment was 

 crested with yellow granules, and on the dorsum of 

 the second and third segments there was a transverse 

 band of yellow granules from one subdorsal line to the 

 other, on the rear edge of each segment. The venter 

 was blue-green, with whiter granules ; the anal plate 

 was edged with yellow granules. The legs were red, 

 and the props blue-green with white granules. The 

 horn was yellow, with a bright carmine spot at the 



