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had led me to anticipate; indeed no description I had read 
had given me any idea of the reality. The entire absence of 
oblique lateral stripes at first induced the conclusion that 
some mistake had been made in determining the species: 
this idea, however, was soon dissipated, and was speedily 
followed by the conviction that I had the larva of Sphinx 
Convolvuli before me. The face when the creature is at rest 
is held nearly in a vertical position; the mouth, however, is 
inclined slightly backwards towards the feet, which are 
inclined forwards. It is very slightly convex, and notably 
narrower than the 2nd segment, which partially receives it: 
this segment is narrower than those which follow, and which 
are of nearly equal substance to the 13th, and this is evidently 
less than the rest, as usual in larve ; on the 12th is an arcuate, 
decurved, caudal horn, which is moderately stout at the base, 
and tapers to an acute point; the body is transversely 
wrinkled, and has manifest incisions separating the segments. 
The colour of the head is green, with a slender black line 
between the cheeks; this forks at the lower extremity and 
includes the mouth; each cheek has two longitudinal black 
stripes, whereof the exterior on each cheek slightly exceeds 
the interior both in length and breadth. The body is bright 
apple-green, with six longitudinal series of black spots, and 
a narrow black medio-ventral stripe commencing on the dth 
segment and terminating on the 12th; this narrow stripe is 
interrupted between the 5th and 6th segments, and also 
between the 6th and 7th: the medio-dorsal area is without 
black markings, and the sub-dorsal area has a distinct series, 
one on every segment, excepting the 2nd, 5th, and 6th; each 
spot is seated in the incision between the segments, and is 
therefore double, part on the preceding, part on the following 
segment; the anterior portion pointed and slightly oblique, 
the posterior portion rounded: the last of this series on each 
side is linear, oblique, and continuous with the caudal horn, 
which is chestnut-brown with a black tip: the second series 
of black spots on each side is lateral, and situated exactly 
half-way between the series already described and the 
spiracles ; in position these spots alternate with those in the 
sub-dorsal series: the third series of black spots on each side 
is spiracular; each spiracle is oblong and black, and is 
_ surrounded with a very delicate pale circumscription; each 
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