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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 Réaumur, 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 the leaves together, and the cavity occupied 
by the caterpillar. - 
The Vine Pyralis is Coe 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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