LEPIDOPTEEA. 



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These packets are to be found on nearly every tree and shrub, and 

 the caterpillar, lying nearly in the middle of the packet, is well 

 sheltered, and surrounded by a good supply of food. We will 

 content ourselves by giving a drawing, after Reaumur, of the 



Figs. 285 and 286. Willow leaves rolled by a caterpillar, and Section of a bundle of leaves drawn 

 together by a caterpillar. 



pretty arrangement of the leaves of a species of willow (Figs. 285, 

 286). In the figures we see the parcel bound together by the 

 caterpillar. In that to the right we see the transverse section 

 of the packet of leaves magnified. At the two edges are seen the 

 threads which keep these leaves together, and the cavity occupied 

 by the caterpillar. 



The Vine Pyralis is produced from a leaf-rolling caterpillar, 

 which deserves our attention on account of the ravages which it 

 has for some time committed, and which it still commits in vine- 



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