Other Leaf-Rollers 



Between the two sheets which touch, the 

 egg is laid, again one egg. Then the double 

 leaf is rolled from the tip to the attachment. 

 The indentations, the serrations of the last 

 fold are sealed down by the patient pressure 

 of the snout; the two mouths of the cylinder 

 are closed by turning the edges in. It is 

 finished. The barrel is completed, about 

 two-fifths of an inch long and hooped at its 

 fixed end by the median vein. It is small but 

 strong and not devoid of elegance. 



The thick-set cooper has her merits, which 

 I should like to elucidate more fully by 

 watching her at wo'rk. What I have con- 

 trived to see in the open, in the actual work- 

 shop, amounts to little more than nothing. 

 Many a time do I surprise the Weevil on 

 her cask, motionless, with her snout against 

 the staves. What is she doing there? She 

 is sleeping in the sunlight; she is waiting 

 for the last layer of the work to acquire a 

 firm hold under prolonged pressure. If I 

 examine her too closely, she at once gathers 

 her legs under her belly and lets herself fall. 



Since my visits tell me hardly anything, 

 I try to rear the insect in domesticity. The 

 Attelabus lends herself very well to the 

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