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THE INSECT WOELI). 



lives in the interior of willows and other trees. It was on this 

 caterpillar that Lyonnet made his admirable anatomical researches. 



Fig. 244. Larva of Dicranura vinula. 



Another tribe of Bombyces comprises some very strange cater- 

 pillars, whose hindermost feet are changed into forked pro 

 longations, which they move about in a threatening manner. 

 These sort of fly-flaps are perhaps meant to keep at a distance 

 those insects which would lay their eggs upon the caterpillar's 

 body. The caterpillars of Dicranuras are of this kind. We give a 



Fig. Ji45. Dicranura vinula. 



representation of the caterpillar and the moth of the Puss -moth 

 (Dicranura vinula, Figs. 244, 245), as also the moth of the Dicranura 

 verbasci, the former of which is common in England, and the larva 



