180 LIMACODES MICILIA. 



insect. The greater part of the body is green, with 

 a large saddle-shaped yellowish-grey space on the 

 back : numerous thick spinous elevations, garnished 

 with strong hairs, rise both from the anterior and 

 posterior part of the body, and along the sides there 

 is a series of smaller ones of a pink colour. The head 

 is extremely small, and the segments are scarcely 

 discernible viewed from above. This caterpillar feeds 

 on the leaves of the sweet orange. It prepares a 

 globose-oval cocoon of light yellowish-brown silk : 

 the chrysalis is short aud contracted : the butterfly 

 comes forth from it in six or seven days. 



This singular insect is a native of Surinam. It 

 has a very close resemblance to Phal. (Bombyx) 

 Coelestina of Cramer and Stoll, from the same coun- 

 try, but the latter is much smaller, the colouring of 

 the surface slightly different, and the legs are bluish- 

 black. The caterpillar, as represented by Stoll 

 (plate 21, fig. 2), has the greater part of the body 

 covered by a kind of shield, of a green colour, edged 

 with yellow, on the hinder part of which are two 

 rounded tufts of velvet black. A considerable num- 

 ber of similar tufts likewise exist on the anterior 

 segments. 



