Other Leaf-Rollers 
Between the two sheets which touch, the 
egg is laid, again one egg. Then the double 
leaf is rolled from the tip to the attachment. 
The indentations, the serrations of the last 
fold are sealed down by the patient pressure 
of the snout; the two mouths of the cylinder 
are closed by turning the edges in. It is 
finished. The barrel is completed, about 
two-fifths of an inch long and hooped at its 
fixed end by the median vein. It is small but 
strong and not devoid of elegance. 
The thick-set cooper has her merits, which 
I should like to elucidate more fully by 
watching her at work. What I have con- 
trived to see in the open, in the actual work- 
shop, amounts to little more than nothing. 
Many a time do I surprise the Weevil on 
her cask, motionless, with her snout against 
the staves. What is she doing there? She 
is sleeping in the sunlight; she is waiting 
for the last layer of the work to acquire a 
firm hold under prolonged pressure. If I 
examine her too closely, she at once gathers 
her legs under her belly and lets herself fall. 
Since my visits tell me hardly anything, 
I try to rear the insect in domesticity. The 
Attelabus lends herself very well to the 
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