176 CATERPILLARS AND THEIR MOTHS 



base in front, and rough with red granules. They ate 

 all their skins except the horns and masks. 



In three days they molted again, and were much as 

 before, except that the subdorsals were fainter, the 

 face-lines yellower and broader, and the very short 

 horn was pinkish yellow, with a brown double dot at 

 the base in front ; there was a dark brown spot at the 

 tip of each anal prop and on each leg. The yellow 

 granules of the transverse lines on the thorax were 

 almost spikes, like those of the dorsal line of amyntor. 

 Three days later the legs had become yellow, with red 

 tips, and the crest on the first segment was hardly 

 noticeable. 



The striking points of the larvae were the deep, vel- 

 vety-green color, the yellow bands of granules on the 

 second and third segments, and the last pair of broad 

 yellow obliques, coloring the short horn. 



The third molt followed the second in four days. 

 The caterpillars were now not an inch long. The head 

 was more triangular, pale green, with pale yellow gran- 

 ules and yellow face-lines meeting at the apex of the 

 head. The first segment was pale green, granulated, 

 with no noticeable crest of granules. The rest of the 

 body was deep moss-green, densely set with tiny yel- 

 low granules, except the anal segment, which was 

 bright yellow-green, with very small yellow granules, 

 and the anal plate was edged with yellow granules, 

 covered with glassy-green ones, and had a dark red- 

 brown spot at the tip. The second and third segments 

 had conspicuous crests of yellow spikes, and the very 

 narrow obliques were of yellow granules, the last pair 

 being broader and yellower. The abdominal segments 



