CATERPILLARS. 



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Nests of oak-leaf rolling Caterpillars- 



and may readily be found as soon as the leaves ex- 

 pand. In June, when the perfect insect has ap- 

 peared, by beating a branch of an oak, a whole shower 

 of these pretty green moths may be shook into the air. 



Among the leaf-rolling caterpillars, there is a 

 small dark-brown one, with a black head and six 

 feet, very common in gardens on the currant-bush, 

 or the leaves of the rose-tree. {LozotcBiiia Rosana, 

 Stephens.) It is exceedingly destructive to the 

 flower-buds. The eggs are deposited in the summer, 

 and probably also in the autumn or in spring, in 

 little oval or circular patches of a green colour. The 

 grub makes its appearance with the first opening of 

 the leaves of whose structure in the half-expanded 

 state it takes advantage to construct its summer tent. 

 It is not, like some of the other leaf-rollers, contented 



