100 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



During the second stage, or after the lir*t moult, the 

 color is blackish brown, mottled with light brown or 

 dark green, and dorsal ly dotted with white. Dorsal 

 patch yellowish, tubercles black. In five days it moults 

 the second time, when the length is .7 of an inch. The 

 color is mottled light and dark green on the anterior 

 and last segments; the large patch salmon-colored, as 

 is often more or less of the last segment ; tubercles and 

 lilac spots as before ; on fourth segment a round ochra- 

 ceous patch appears, on which is a black ring with a lilac 

 centre ; head brown. 



Moults the third time in four days, when the length 

 is one inch ; anterior segments much thickened. Color 

 green, the salmon patch nearly and sometimes wholly 

 lost. ; the spots on joint 4 pale green, central points purple ; 

 on the same segment are two small purple spots between 

 the others ; on joint 5 is a row of four purple spots, and 

 on 9 to 11 there is one spot on each side of each. Moults 



FIG. 18. 



Papilio Turnus, foil-grown larva. 



the last time in five days. The mature larva is about 

 1.5 inches long, of a deep green color, paler beneath, the 

 head reddish brown. The anterior edge of segment 2 

 and the posterior part of segment 5 are yellow; the 

 anterior part of 6 is velvety black. Some examples 

 are dark reddish brown, or blackish, with the same 



