Packard.] 



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ting it away from the side of the leaf, and then deftly rolling 

 it up into a slender cone, which stands up nearly on its base 

 Fig. 51. 



Fig. 52. 



Willow leav'cs rolled by a caterpillar; and section. 



(Fig. 50). An example of a less perfect roll, and one inter- 

 mediate in perfection between the foregoing nests and the 

 tent of the common garden Tortrix, is shown in the accom- 

 panying figure (51) of a number of willow leaves rolled up 

 by a caterpillar, wliile figure 52 gives a transverse section 

 of the same compound roll with the outer threads binding 

 the simple rolls into a bundle. Our garden leaf-roller can 



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