240 WINGED-ROLLERS. 



a winged image of his parent moth. Thus, at least, it proved 

 (with the occupants of some of those seed-built fortresses 

 which we kept through winter in a box) out of doors ; their 

 appearance as moths may be somewhat later. 



There is another and numerous company of caterpillar art- 

 izans, which, from their mode of leaf appropriation, have been 

 designated Leaf-rollers. Though the labours of this industri- 

 ous class do not correspond (like the above) with any particu- 

 lar craft of human exercise, they are much too ingenious, as 

 well as in their aggregate of mischief too important to be 

 passed over without notice, either here or within " their green 

 shops " the gardens, hedges, forests, where throughout the 

 summer they are to be seen incessantly at work. The rolling 

 or the folding of a leaf may be for our handy fingers but a 

 simple operation ; but it becomes a work of wonder when per- 

 formed by a worm, which, besides rolling or folding, has more- 

 over to retain its verdant scroll or turn-over in these artificial 

 forms, the leaf being thereby converted to a double purpose, that 

 of affording, by its outer folds, a cell of protection, and, by its 

 inner, a magazine of fresh provision to be consumed under cover. 



There is scarcely a single tree or plant which does not afford 

 material for some caterpillar of the leaf-rolling crew, which, 

 according to their species, are accustomed to exercise their 

 ingenuity in forms of infinite variety. That of the simple 

 scroll* is very commonly exemplified in the leaves of the lilac 



* Vignette. 



