Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 360
us begin with the Elephant Hawk-moth. Thecaterpillars (Fig. 3), as represented in most entomo-logical works, are of two varieties, most of them brown,but some green. Both have a white line on the three The Colors of Animals 329 first segments; two remarkable eye-like spots on thefourth and fifth,… … Fig. 3.—The Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth {Chcero-campa elpenor). Full grown. Natural size. and why are some green and some brown, offering thussuch a marked contrast to the leaves of the smallepilobe on which they feed ? Other questions will sug-gest themselves later. I must now call your…
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