APATURA II. 
Not long after this moult, having reached the length of .25 inch, most of the 
larvae change color, the body gradually becoming of a mixed red and gray, with 
dark green dorsal and lateral lines; the head and horns also change to brown. 
(Figs, e, e 2 .) A few may however proceed to their third moult, after which they 
will assume a winter coat, but of less decided color than that of the others, the 
green becoming brownish or vinous. 
A few days after resuming activity in the spring, the third moult is passed. 
Length now .4 inch; the anterior segments have become much the largest, the 
shield on second more pointed, the head larger in proportion, the vertices more 
prominent than at last stage, and the horns greatly developed; the body green, 
striped longitudinally with white and yellow; color of head light green, with 
two pale vertical stripes in front. (Figs./,/ 2 .) 
About ten per cent, of the larvae raised by me varied at this stage in the 
markings of the face. One was wholly pale black except for four marks, two at 
the sides, and two in front above the mandibles; and the front of the antlers was 
black. This stage endured eight days. 
After fourth moult: length .8 inch. (Fig. g, nat. size; /-/ showing varia¬ 
tions in marking of head ; /, sections of surface on dorsum and side.) The larvm 
now grew rapidly and in from five to ten days had reached maturity, those which 
lingered, and changed to chrysalis the latest, invariably producing female butter¬ 
flies. 
Matuke Laeva. — Length 1.4 in. * (Fig. h) to 1.7 in. ? (Fig. i), greatest thick¬ 
ness of the latter, .24 in.; body sub-cylindrical, somewhat flattened dorsally, the 
sides flattened, sloping, the base broad; thickest at sixth to eighth segments, ta¬ 
pering rather evenly either way ; the last segment ending in a forked tail; the 
dorsum covered by a broad yellow or buff band, which is edged on either side by 
white, and is bisected by an indigo-blue line; the sides striped with dull green 
above, and below by two stripes of yellow, another of green being between them ; 
the under side and legs pale green; each segment creased five times so as to 
make four elevated ridges, the posterior two being broader than the others; the 
whole upper surface covered with minute tubercles, white, translucent, sub-conic, 
irregularly placed on the ridges, some in each row being two or three times as 
large as others; some of these have at summit single short fleshy appendages, 
others a white hair; head pyriform, truncated at top, with an angular depression, 
the vertices sub-conic; on these last are stout many-pronged antlers, the prongs 
fleshy, round, and somewhat curved downward; on either side of the face a ver¬ 
tical row of simple prongs; color of head pale green, the face marked by four 
vertical whitish stripes ; the surface both of head and antlers dotted with punc¬ 
tures which disclose a darker sub-color; the entire antler usually yellow- 
