Note 6 — Chapter I · THE EUMENES

My old notes give the following description of the caterpillars found in the nest of E. Amadei: a pale-green or, less often, yellowish body covered with short white hairs; head wider than the front segment, dead-black and also bristling with hairs. Length: 16 to 18 millimetres;6 width: about 3 millimetres.7 It is more than a quarter of a century since I jotted down this descriptive sketch; and today, at Sérignan, I find in the Eumenes’ larder the same sort of game that I saw long ago at Carpentras. Time and distance have not altered the nature of the provisions.