CHAPTER IX 



OTHER LEAF-ROLLERS 



TS the insect's trade determined by the 

 nature of the tools of which it disposes, 

 or, on the contrary, is it independent of 

 them? Does the organic structure govern 

 the instincts, or do the insect's various apti- 

 tudes hark back to origins that cannot be 

 explained merely by the details of its 

 anatomy? We shall obtain an answer to 

 these questions from two other leaf-rollers, 

 the Apoderus of the Hazel (A. coryli, 

 LIN.) and the Attelabus (A. curculionoides, 

 LIN.), both of them eager rivals of the 

 cigar-makers who work the poplar and the 

 vine. 



According to the Greek lexicon, the term 

 Apoderus ought to mean "the flayed." Is 

 this really what the author of the expression 

 had in mind? My few books, the odd 

 volumes of a village naturalist, do not enable 

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