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velvety green, showing the characteristic whitish fine 

 broken dorsal line which appears only just at the begin- 

 ning and end of each segment. The small tubercular 

 dots are whitish, and a pale whitish spiracular stripe 

 attenuated at each end extends down the side of the 

 anal legs. The subdorsal line is a rather darker green 

 than that of the back, and has a line of whitish faint 

 dots or freckles along its lower edge. The head is 

 pale green. 



On the 2nd of November they laid up for moulting, 

 and the third moult occurred on the 5th and 6th. 

 They were now decidedly velvety-green, with whitish 

 broken fine dorsal line and tubercular dots, and pale 

 spiracular whitish green stripe edged above with dark 

 green ; the subdorsal dotted line, faintly paler than 

 the ground, is edged above with a dark green slanting 

 line nearly as far as the second dot from the front 

 of each segment. The head is light green, streaked 

 down the middle of each lobe and reticulated with 

 brownish-green ; length directly after moulting a little 

 more than five-eighths of an inch, increased by five 

 days' feeding to seven-eighths, and stout in proportion, 

 and in seven days more they were fully an inch long. 



They moulted the fourth time on the 20th, 21st, and 

 22nd, and were during the first day of a much darker 

 velvety-green colour, the head streaked and reticulated 

 with brown on the green ground. The very fine 

 broken dorsal line shows quite white, and also the 

 very minute tubercular dots surrounded partly with 

 dark brownish-green. A dark green diamond-shape 

 appears on each segment beyond the thoracic, and from 

 their side angles a dark brownish-green streak proceeds 

 obliquely forwards and slightly downwards through 

 the next segment in front, fading away just before 

 reaching the dark edge of * the pale spiracular stripe, 

 which is palest down the side of the anal leg and finely 

 edged above with dark green along the body. The head 

 is brilliantly polished, semi-transparent green in colour, 

 streaked down each lobe and reticulated with brown, 



