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first with pink, dotted with dark brown. The abdomen 

 was of lighter color than the rest, and had a very dark 

 band between each two segments. The pupae were 

 one and three eighths inches long, not slender, and had 

 a sharp eremaster. 



The moths of the second brood, which had pupated 

 in August, emerged in September, twenty-two days 

 later, while the pupae of the first brood, formed in 

 July, did not give the moths until May of the follow- 

 ing year. 



Three years later we had three sets of myron eggs 

 from captured moths. Of these three broods nearly 

 half the larva? were of shades of brown, varying from 

 a clear, light tan to a deep chocolate-brown, with pink- 

 ish obliques edged below with dark brown or dark 

 green, and the bodies were spotted with either dark 

 brown or dark green. All these had red spots on the 

 dorsum. 



It is not uncommon for a species to show two forms 

 of coloring, the brown and the green, and often there are 

 intermediate forms combining both colors ; but one's 

 first experience of it is always a surprise. If some 

 hatched brown and others green it would not seem so 

 queer, but having them alike until the third or fourth 

 molt and then so very different is startUng until one 

 is used to it. 



Myron is one of our most common caterpillars in 

 New England, and is found on grape and woodbine 

 onh", as far as records show, and we have never suc- 

 ceeded in making it eat any other leaf. It is found 

 " from Canada to Georgia, and westward to Missouri 

 and Iowa," Mr. Beutenmiiller says. There is a variety. 



