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rather ill-defined and marked with round white spots, bordered 

 by dull green, extends on either side from the 5th segment to the 

 caudal horn; the anterior edge of these segments is also marked 

 with several similar spots ; the head and the thoracic legs pale 

 green ; the membranous prolegs pale greyish-green tipped with 

 brown ; stigmata narrow, black, bordered by white ; abdomen dull 

 greenish-yellow or greyish-green (Chaumette, Z00L, ix., p. 3158). 

 Green, with a prominent, whitish, bluish-bordered, longitudinal lateral 

 band from the sixth segment to base of horn ■ the band traversed 

 by white oval spots ; above and below is a clustered series of 

 white spots, and others bordering the segments over the back ; a 

 large purple-centred black-ringed blind ocellus on side of 4th seg- 

 ment ; spiracles small, black ; horn yellow. Before changing, the 

 larvae become pale brownish-red, with the black, lateral ocellus, a 

 spot on. second segment, and the head dull black, the white lateral 

 clustered spots showing out prominently (Moore). A larva past 4th 

 moult, was about 4ms. long, light green in colour (almost sea-green) 

 dorsally, darker laterally, with a white lateral line beginning on the 

 5th segment, and terminating at the yellow horn. The small, 

 somewhat cleft head, green ; on each segment white spots above 

 the white line ; the thoracic segments yellowish-green, with a round 

 spot, light blue centrally, darker blue at its margin. The spiracles 

 black, surrounded with a white ring (Nowicki). 



Figures of larva of Daphnis nerii. — I. Roesel gives (Insecten- 

 Belustigung, vol. iii., tab. xv) three figures of the larva : (1) The first 

 (green) form is green in colour, shading on the 1st abdominal segment 

 into yellow, yellow predominating on the thoracic segments and on 

 the 9th abdominal and horn ; the head green. The yellowish-white 

 subdorsal line starts [as all subdorsal (of Weismann) lines of 

 Eumorphids do] from horn and passes forwards, broad and strongly 

 marked to middle of 1st abdominal, i.e., to end of green colouring, 

 being slightly narrower on this segment. The abdominal segments show 

 9 or 10 subsegments, although fewer are indicated [8 or 9] on figures 

 2 and 3, but the figures are from different angles, and the subsegmenta- 

 tion of larvae varies at different parts of segment, and the subsegments 

 seen vary according to how many are obscured at incisions, by 

 attitude of larva. On metathorax are five subsegments and on the 

 first two of these, in line with the subdorsal line, is a large blue eye-spot, 

 partially divided, as if each subsegment had a separate one and 

 these had begun to coalesce. (2) The second figure is of an orange- or 

 brownish-yellow. The subdorsal line white, except that it is yellowish on 

 part of the 7th and 8th abdominals, it proceeds forwards, nearly of the 

 ground-colour from middle of 1st abdominal (yellowish not white), 

 right to the head ; head yellow. On the abdominal segments the 

 dorsum is shaded with paler, a darker shade crosses the dorsum of first 

 subsegment, and, from the margin of the light dorsal shade, occupies 

 the next subsegment down to the subdorsal line — of each following 

 subsegment it occupies less, till, on the last (or last but one also), it is 

 absent. Its upper border thus forms an oblique line in reverse 

 direction to that of Sphinx, but agreeing with that usual in Nephelids 

 (and some Eumorphids), a similar dark shade occurs below the sub- 

 dorsal line, extending to below the spiracular level, but interrupted 

 by a yellow area round the spiracle (which is a dark spot). The 



