I haven't been following the "green casques" thread very closely, and I've erased a good many messages, so someone may have made this point already. But the association of the green casques with army helmets seems to me totally wrong. I have always associated the "Paquin" passage with the final lines of Canto LXXX, five pages previous: as the young lizard extends his leopard spots along the grass-blade seeking the green midge half an ant-size [then five lines about London] and if her green elegance remains on this side of my rain ditch puss lizard will lunch on some other T-bone sunset grand couturier. We have here an association of "green" with "elegance," and Paquin was in fact a couturier. A midge is a small fly, and its closed wings might look like a "casque." But I also think that Carroll Terrell is correct in association the green casque with the cocoon from which the wasp emerges, in Canto LXXXIII. Burt Hatlen