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HALF HOUKS WITH INSECTS. 



[Packaed. 



mur's work entitled '■'■Memoires pour servir a VHistoire Natii- 

 relle des Insects," and which are copied from Figuier's work 

 "The Insect World." 



Figure 48 represents an oak leaf which has been partially 

 Fig. 48. Fig. 49. 



Oak leaf rolled perpendicularly and sidewise. 



rolled np transversel}". We can see with what care the leaf 

 has been rolled up, and how at each step the roll has been 

 secured by bundles of silken strands. A similar roll is seen 



Fig. 50. 



Sorrel leaf cut by a caterpillar. 



at figure 49, where the leaf has been rolled sidewise or lon- 

 gitudinally to the leaf, with the same painstaking. Another 

 species Reaumur found to roll a portion of a sorrel leaf, cut- 



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