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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
smaller home is exchanged for one more suited to its size, and it is 
not an unusual thing to find three or four leaves still green and 
perfect which have successively housed the same caterpillar. 
The body of the larva is thick toward the anterior end, gradually 
tapering from the fourth segment backward. 
Mr. Saunders, in describing a caterpillar of this species, which he 
found rolled up in a leaf of the spice bush, says: “ Its length was 
about one and three-fourths inches, the body being thickest from the 
third to the fifth segments. The head is rather small, flat in front, 
slightly bilobed, dull flesh color, with a faint tinge of brown. The 
body is bright pea green, with a yellow stripe across the anterior part 
of the second segment, edged behind with dull black. On the 
fourth segment are two prominent eye-like spots, of dull yellowish 
or yellowish buff, encircled by a fine ring of black, and a large black 
pupil filling most of the lower portion. The posterior portion of this 
black pupil is encircled by a shining bluish black ring, the anterior 
portion of which strikes a little beyond the middle of the pupil; 
there is also a line of black in front of the pupil extending nearly 
across the yellow portion, and a pale pinkish spot in the upper part 
of the yellow which is edged with a slightly darker shade. On the 
fifth segment are two large irregular spots of the same color, pale 
buff, encircled by a faint ring of black, and having a faint pinkish 
spot on the anterior portion of each. These spots are nearer to each 
other than those on the fourth segment, a portion of the space be¬ 
tween the fifth and sixth segments being deep black. Each segment, 
from the sixth to the eleventh, inclusive, has four blue dots, encircled 
with black, those on the seventh, eighth and ninth sometimes being 
largest. On each side, close to the under surface, is a wide yellow 
stripe, gradually softening into the green above, and edged below 
with blackish brown. Immediately below the spiracles is a row of 
blue dots edged with black, one on each segment, from the sixth to 
the twelfth, inclusive. The under surface is dull, pale greenish or 
yellowish white, having a decidedly reddish tinge as it approaches 
the yellow stripe on the sides. The feet partake of the same general 
color.” 
It is a plump, good-natured looking creature, and when fully 
grown is one of the handsomest of caterpillars. The eye-like spots 
have a droll, almost half-reproachful look, as if they expected you 
to beg their owner’s pardon for taking the liberty to expose him to 
the daylight. 
