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ating the fleshy part ; others also make galleries, but only in the 

 uticle of the tree, or in the tenderest part of its bark. Some, again, 

 hut themselves up in one or many leaves rolled like a trumpet, 

 'hile others keep at the summits of plants, whose leaves they bind 

 )gether in a parcel with threads. And, lastly, some devour the 

 ;ones of fruits, such as that of the olive. 



The moths of these caterpillars are very small, and generally of 

 rilliant metallic colours, they are to be found in the woods, and still 

 lore in the orchards, from the beginning of June till the month of 

 eptember. 



The (Ecophorce are very slim and elegantly formed. Their 

 nterior wings, which are very narrow, are often ornamented with 

 Ivery longitudinal lines, the posterior wings exactly resembling two 

 athers. 



The caterpillars live and metamorphose themselves in portable 

 ises, which they manufacture from the membranous portions of 

 aves, whose flesh alone they eat. These cases are generally of a 

 ro^\^l colour, resembling a dead leaf. They are attached perpen- 

 icularly under the leaves of many trees, but often under those of 

 uit trees. 



Certain species of CEcophorce have cases partly covered with loose 

 ieces only slightly attached, formed of portions of leaves, and ar- 

 mged in such a way that Reaumur compares them to the furbelows 

 hich ladies used formerly to attach to the bottom of their dresses. 



