He had found it
on a butternut tree, and used great care in taking it lest it
`horn' him. He was horrified when the Deacon picked it up, and
demonstrated how harmless it was. This is difficult to believe,
but it was a third Regalis and came into my possession at night
again. My only consolation was that it was feeding, and would
not pupate until I could make a picture. This one was six inches
from tip to tip, the largest caterpillar I ever saw; a beautiful
blue-green colour, with legs of tan marked with black, each segment
having four small sharp horns on top, and on the sides an oblique
dash of pale blue. The head bore ten horns. Four of these were
large, an inch in length, coloured tan at the base, black at the
tip. The foremost pair of this formidable array turned front over
the face, all the others back, and the outside six of the ten were
not quite the length of the largest ones.
The first caterpillar had measured five inches, and the next one
three, but it was transforming. Whether the others were males
and this a female, or whether it was only that it had grown under
favourable conditions, I could not tell.
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