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INSECTS OF THE GARDEN. 
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and shorter thread. Finally, after much labor, the young 
caterpillar (for it begins its work soon after hatching from 
the egg) spins a number of threads, each of which adds new 
strength to the tubular structure, until a tent arises—the 
whole the work of perhaps but a few minutes. In this tent 
it resides, enlarging it as its body grows, and eating out the 
interior, adding new stores of food by sewing new leaves to 
the outside of the tent, until, when about to pass into the 
chrysalis state, it stops eating. It does not now desert its 
home. Its tent serves it as a rude cocoon, the caterpillar 
having previously lined it with silk, and we often find the 
end of the chrysalis protruding out of the door of the tent 
after the moth has flown away. 
This species of leaf-roller, called Lozotcenia rosa- 
ceana by Dr. Harris (Fig. 47, enlarged twice), is 
rather large compared with others of its family, its 
body rather plump and pale livid green, its head is 
black, as is also the ring following; while the other 
segments are transversely wrinkled above, with a few 
scattered fine hairs. The moth itself usually appears 
about the last of June. From its eggs laid at this 
time a new brood of worms appear in August. The Leaf - 
roller 
pupa or chrysalis is pointed on the top of the head, 
and on the hinder edge of each abdominal ring are two rows 
of spines. The moth is pale brown, with two broad oblique 
darker reddish brown bandg across the fore wings, and a tri¬ 
angular spot of the same color near the tip. The hind 
wings are ochreous yellow. The wings expand about an 
inch, and the caterpillar is a little less than an inch long. 
There are many other leaf-rolling caterpillars which roll up 
leaves, much more perfectly than the Garden Leaf-roller. 
No one has described their mode of building their tubular 
houses better than the celebrated French philosopher and 
naturalist, Reaumur. We may find on some of our trees 
leaves rolled up much like those here figured from Reau- 
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