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of willows and other trees. It was on this caterpillar that Lyonne! 

 made his admirable anatomical researches. 



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Fig. 244.— Larva of Dicranura vinula. 



Another tribe of Bombycina comprises some very strange cate' 

 pillars, whose hindermost feet are changed into forked prolongation 

 which they move about in a threatening manner. These sort of fl; 



Fig. 245. — Dicranura vinula. 



traps are perhaps meant to keep at a distance those insects whi 

 would lay their eggs upon the caterpillar's body. The caterpill; 



