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forttiance on my part which he manifestly regarded as 

 an Unpardonable liberty. I then made a detailed study 

 of the head and thorax (Fig. 40). 

 To do this I placed him in a watch- 

 glass, while I studied him through 

 a compound microscope. While I 

 looked he lifted his second booted 

 leg in a deprecating way as if to fig. 40. Head and Two 



say, "Is there then in this wide Thoracic Segments of the 

 . . Caterpillar of P. Umata. 



world no justice to be meted out to 



mortals who outrage the rights and persons of innocent 



caterpillars ? " 



I tried to put on paper this deprecatory attitude, but 

 it was too subtle for my clumsy powers of delineation. 

 In fact, he was from first to last a very bad "sitter" and 

 very exhausting to the artist's patience. However, he 

 was well worth the trouble he cost, for he was as inter- 

 esting as a harlequin in his vivid costume of black and 

 green. The black face was made grotesque by ten 

 little eyes of assorted sizes, placed in circles, each one 

 shining like an opal. His black legs were adorned at 

 the joints with what a costumer would call " slashes " 

 that revealed a lining of green ; on the segment nearest 

 the body the black band was cut into gay points. 



When I finished the sketch I rolled him in his 

 leaf and took him oiit into the woods. Then, asking 



