PHILAMPELUS PANDORUS AND AOHEMON 



GENUS, PHiLAM'PELUS (" vme-lovei' "). 



S PANDO'RUS 



^ ^ A'CHEMON (Greek proper name). 



We had had so many caterpillars of these two species, 

 both large and small, with horns and without, that it 

 was somewhat startling to discover that we had not 

 their life-histories. It was mortifying too, for we 

 might have had them many times over when the 

 moths emerged, and the only way to regain self-respect 

 was to get them. One of Us knew a woodbine sprawl- 

 ing in long trails over a mass of cobblestones left on a 

 hilltop by a retreating glacier, and this woodbine had 

 furnished crawlers of both kinds for several summers. 

 There was, then, good hope of finding eggs of both 

 species if she hit upon just the right time. The 

 weather was intensely hot, the sky cloudless, the hill- 

 top unshaded, so One of Us arose with the robins, 

 the earliest birds in that part of the country, and 

 walked up the hill between four and five o'clock in the 

 morning, much distracted by the songs and glimpses 

 of birds she wished to follow and watch, and much 

 tempted by rudbeckias and meadow-rue in the fields 

 by the way. The cobblestones were hard to the knees, 

 but stooping was too back-breaking, so she knelt 



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