The lateral lines consist of a series of black markings near the posterior margin of each segment; the subdorsal lines are represented by four oblique black marks on each side of the four posterior segments of the larva.
In about six weeks' time it is full grown, when it still resembles the caterpillar of Melanchra insignis, except that its colouring is considerably darker, and a number of rust-red spots are situated on the subdorsal line.
The larva is dull greyish-brown, with the subdorsal and lateral lines darker.
It varies much in colour; the dorsal surface is usually reddish-brown; the lateral line is broad and black; a series of subdorsal stripes are also black; the ventral surface is green.
The larva is dark brown, tinged with pink; the subdorsal region is paler, there are a series of diagonal blackish stripes on each segment, and the anterior portions of the larva are much darker than the rest of the body.
In colour it is pale brownish-pink, with numerous irregular darker markings, which in some specimens almost form two broad subdorsal lines.
The larva is rather attenuated and black in colour; the dorsal line is narrow and bright yellow; the subdorsal is broader and white; and the lateral line is pale brown.
Twelve days later the larva becomes pale green in colour, and moults for the first time, after which traces of subdorsal and lateral lines present themselves.
A broad whitesubdorsal line extended from the first to the penultimate segment, from which the horn was completely absent.
The second moult occurs after another three days, and brings no important change; only the fine subdorsal line becoming somewhat fainter.
In the species belonging to this group the subdorsal line may be more or less retained.
In the third stage, which occurs after six or seven days, the oblique stripes appear darker, and the subdorsalline disappears.
We have thus presented to us in one and the same stage of a species, the complete development of ring-spots from a subdorsal line.
In this, the third stage, the broad white subdorsal line bears on each segment a red spot enclosed between black crescents above and below (Fig.
The black “ground-area” present in the fifth stage is as yet absent, and the spot is not so sharply separated anteriorly from the subdorsal line as it becomes later.
The spots on the subdorsal line decrease from the posterior to the anterior segments, so that they must undoubtedly be regarded as a repetition or transference of the ring-spot previously developed on the eleventh segment.
Staudinger, there were some which did not actually possess a distinctsubdorsal line, but in place thereof, and as its last indication, a feeble light stripe.
The subdorsal is white, and bears in the place of the ring-spots small red dots, whilst the line itself is bordered with black where the red spots are situated.
In a third group of longitudinally striped caterpillars, the younger genus Chærocampa, eye-spots were developed directly from portions of the subdorsal line, at first only on the fourth and fifth segments.
This species may possibly retain in its ontogeny a stage in which the oblique stripes are also absent, whilst the subdorsal line is present.
In many, but not in all specimens, very distinct traces of a subdorsal line can be seen as a light whitish stripe connecting the white spots.
On the most important point Kleemann’s observations unfortunately give no information--the presence or absence of a subdorsal line in the youngest stages.
Thus, the subdorsalline first appears in Elpenor in the second stage, whilst in Porcellus it is present during the first stage.
The larva is green, and has the short oblique stripes over the legs common to so many species of Chærocampa, the only marking besides these being a simple white subdorsal line, without any trace of eye-spots.
Eye-spots at this last stage; subdorsalmuch faded, especially on segment 4.
Subdorsal with open ring-spot on the 11th segment.
As no subdorsal line is mentioned or figured, this species must be regarded as belonging to the third stage of phyletic development (see p.
Retention of the Subdorsal Line by Ocellated Larvæ.
The subdorsal line extends from immediately behind the second eye-spot to the base of the very short and much curved violet anal horn.
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