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bottom, for the free egress of the inmate. They 

 never quit their abode during tlie day, but regularly 

 set out, at sunset, on their perambulations in search 

 of food, and drag to their domicile, one by one, such 

 leaves as they feed upon, which they consume at 

 their leisure. One species carries the leaves of 

 Banksia serrata, by the footstalk, to its cell, the 

 door of which it opens witli its tail, and enters back- 

 \vard3, dragging the leaf after it."' 



The larva of the Tortrix and Tinea form tlie 

 leaves of plants, on which they feed, into comfortable 

 and convenient habitations. Some species of these, 

 less scrupulous, make more superficial abodes, by 

 simply connecting, in an irregular packet, a quantity 

 of leaves, united by a few of the silken threads which 

 they spin themselves, and there live in solitude ; 

 while others, still less ambitious, confine themselves 

 to a single leaf, with one side simply folded over the 

 other. Others, again, live in a sort of roll, which is 

 varied in shape, according to the peculiar taste of 

 the species, some cylindrical, others conical, like a 

 grocer's sugar paper, constructed with much nicety, 

 closed at the broad end, and left open at the smaller 

 one, for the ingress and egress of its inhabitant. It 

 is impossible attentively to contemplate these little 

 domiciles without our admiration and wonder being 

 awakened ; and we naturally marvel at the meoha- 



• Lewins, Prodromus of Enlomolog;/, p. 8. 



