AMPELOPHACtA MYRON 



GENUS, ampeloph'aga (" vine-eater "). 



SPECIES, MY'ROX (named for the sculptor Myron). 



In one of onr morning walks up the Lane we spied a 

 greenisli moth on the nnder side of an oak-leaf. Hold- 

 ing a box under her, we broke off the stem and dropped 

 leaf and moth into the box, covering it very quickly, 

 for there is always a chauce of losing the moth, though 

 by day many sphingid moths are inactive — apparently 

 asleep. 



When we examined our captive it proved to be my- 

 ron, the first one of its kind we had seen. Having 

 learned the unwisdom of killing a moth before trying 

 to get eggs from it, we put it into a box with netting 

 over the top, and waited for the next day to show the 

 result. Great was our delight on finding the netting 

 and paper lining studded with almost globular bright 

 apple-green eggs, and many of them. Putting the 

 moth into a fresh box, we detached all the eggs, cut- 

 ting the netting and paper when they did not come off 

 easily, and counted ninety-three of the pretty things. 

 These were shut into a little tin box, labeled and 

 dated, and put on a shelf to wait for hatching-time. 

 This was in June. 



For six nights the myron laid eggs, fewer each night, 

 until we had two hundred, then she died. 



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