LEPIDOPTERA. 273 
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 


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Figs. 285 and 286.—Willow leaves rolled by a caterpillar, and Section of a bundle of leaves drawn 
_ together by a caterpillar, 
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| pretty arrangement of the leavesof a species of willow (Figs. 285, 
| 286). In the figures we see the parcel bound together by the 
| ¢aterpillar. In that to the right we see the transverse section 
f the packet of leaves magnified. At the two edges are seen the 
_ areads which keep these leaves together, and the cavity occupied 
| by the caterpillar. 
The Vine Pyralis is produced 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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