LEPIDOPTERA. 



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tubular cases in wliicli the larvae live (Fig. 126). Others 

 having made a little tent, set it upright on the leaf from 



Fig. 126. — LEAF-ROLLrNG CATERPILLAR. 



which it has been cut. These are everywhere to be found 

 upon om* trees and hedges. Others, again, make a domi- 

 cile bv uniting the opposite edges of a leaf, or fastening 



-SUSPENDED LEAF TENTS. 



two leaves together by means of silk, and suspend the 

 hammock so formed at the end of a silken thread from a 

 twig, and thus the little caterpillar lodges securely, rocked 

 by the winds. 



The Moths (Tinece)* whose caterpillars frequently feed 



* Tinea, Lat. A moth or worm in clothes or books, " dirum Tinese 

 genus." Virgil Georg. iv., 246. 



