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leaf-case, appeared the head of a green Caterpillar, which, 

 thus protected, resumed its juicy meal. 



Having gained possession of master Leaf-roller and his in- 

 genious tent, by cutting off the branch to which they were 

 appended, we placed it in a flower-pot filled with mould, and 

 when the twig withered took care to plant beside it a succes- 

 sion of others. To these our tabernacled feeder never failed 

 to transfer himself and habitation, slinging the latter, as we 

 originally found it, close beside the leaf of his pasture. In- 

 creasing in bulk and length as he thus regaled, he soon out- 

 grew his twisted tenement, which he then cleverly contrived 

 to lengthen by the addition of a piece of fresh leaf nicely 

 joined and fitted to the larger and upper end of the spiral 

 horn. Thus far, and no farther, can we carry, from observ- 

 ation, the history of this artificer in rose leaves ; for supposing 

 that when his caterpillar life approached its close, he would 

 either quietly spin himself up in his case, or bury himself in 

 the earth of the flower-pot, we trusted too confidingly to his 

 apparently non-roving propensities, as was proved one fine 

 morning in July, when we found our Leaf-roller absent with- 

 out leave, his habitation being left (vacant) behind him. 

 That, barring accidents, he subsequently became a moth, there 

 is every reason to conclude from the nature of his constructive 

 labours while a caterpillar. 



Lastly, a word or two about the Leaf-miner ; he, like the Leaf- 

 roller, and the Leaf-tent-maker, holds his verdant estate by the 



