180 LIMACODES MICILIA. 
insect. The greater part of the body is green, with 
a large saddle-shaped yellowish-grey space on the 
back : numerous thick spinous elevations, garnished 
with strong hairs, rise both from the anterior and 
posterior part of the body, and along the sides there 
is a series of smaller ones of a pink colour. The head 
is extremely small, and the segments are scarcely 
discernible viewed from above. This caterpillar feeds 
on the leaves of the sweet orange. It prepares a 
globose-oval cocoon of light yellowish-brown silk : 
the chrysalis is short and contracted : the butterfly 
comes forth from it in six or seven days. 
This singular insect is a native of Surinam. It 
has a very close resemblance to Phal. (Bomhyx) 
Ccelestina of Cramer and Stoll, from the same coun- 
try, but the latter is much smaller, the colouring of 
the surface slightly different, and the legs are bluish- 
black. The caterpillar, as represented by Stoll 
(plate 21, fig. 2), has the greater part of the body 
covered by a kind of shield, of a green colour, edged 
with yellow, on the hinder part of which are two 
rounded tufts of velvet black. A considerable num- 
ber of similar tufts likewise exist on the anterior 
segments. 
