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is very glossy, greenish-yellow faintly tinged with 

 pinkish, and having two rows of pink freckles down 

 the front of each lobe ; the ocelli large and black ; the 

 green of the body is well contrasted with the design 

 on the back which occupies the space there between 

 the trapezoidal warts, and is attenuated a little on the 

 posterior and thoracic segments, beginning on the 

 second as merely twin lines, but on all the others 

 consisting of three equally stoutish lines of very dark 

 crimson ; of these the dorsal line in the centre is 

 straight, but each outer one in its course along each 

 segment bends inward a little towards the middle in 

 symmetrical progression, enclosing a ground of deep 

 rose-pink within them at either end, but which is lost 

 in the middle of the segment by the complete fusion 

 there of the three dark crimson lines together in a mass, 

 just where the middle of the bends bring them near 

 each other ; after an interval of green comes the sub- 

 dorsal line of very deep pink, and at a less interval a 

 thicker and rather sinuous lateral line, and at a wider 

 interval again below a subspiracular line of the same 

 deep pink colour ; the tubercular warts are whitish 

 with minute black central dot bearing a fine short 

 bristle ; the anterior pairs of the trapezoidals are quite 

 close to the crimson outer curves of the dorsal design ; 

 one wart occurs upon the anterior thickest part of the 

 lateral sinuous line, another behind each spiracle, and 

 others again beneath ; the roundish spiracles are 

 blackish with pale centres ; the yellow-green of the 

 back is more yellow close to the crimson design, and 

 also on the tumid spiracular region, which on the 

 posterior segment and edge of anal flap is primrose- 

 yellow ; against this the outer crimson surface of the 

 anal legs contrasts strongly ; beneath on the green 

 belly are three paler lines, the central one the more 

 noticeable ; as the larva matures the crimson markings 

 of the back become purplish, and the general ground 

 a deeper green, though the spiracular ridge remains 

 yellowish to the last. 



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