LEAF-ROLLEi;s. 



winged image of his parent inoth. Thus, at least, it proved 

 (with the occupants of some of those seed-built fortresses wliich 

 we kept through winter in a box) out of doors ; their appearance 

 as moths may be somewhat later. 



There is another and numerous company of caterpillar 

 artisans, which, from their mode of leaf appropriation, have been 

 designated Leaf-rollers. Though the labours of tin's industrious 

 class do not correspond (like the above) with any particular 

 craft of human exercise, they are much too ingenious, as well 

 as in their aggregate of mischief too important to be passed 

 over without notice, either here or within ' ' their green shops" 

 the gardens, hedges, forests, where throughout the summer 

 they are to be seen incessantly at work. The rolling or the 

 folding of a leaf may be for our handy fingers but a simple 

 operation ; but it becomes a work of wonder when performed 

 by a icon//, which, besides rolling or folding, has moreover to 

 retain its verdant scroll or turn-over in these artificial forms, 

 the leaf being thereby converted to a double purpose, that of 

 affording, by its outer folds, a cell of protection, and, by its 

 inner, a magazine of fresh provision to be consumed under cover. 



There is scarcely a single tree or plant which does not afford 

 material for some caterpillar of the leaf-rolling crew, which, 

 according to their species, are accustomed to exercise their 

 ingenuity in forms of infinite variety. That of the simple 

 scroll* is very commonly exemplified in the leaves of the lilac 



* Vignette. 



