CHAPTER IX 
OTHER LEAF-ROLLERS 
S 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 (4. coryli, 
Lin.) and the Attelabus (4. 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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