258 THE INSECT WORLD. 
and 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 prolonga- 
tions, which they move about in a threatening manner. ‘These 
sort of fly-traps are perhaps meant to keep at a distance those 
insects which would lay their eggs upon the caterpillar’s body. 
The caterpillars of Dicranura are of this kind. We give a repre- 

Fig. 245.—Dicranura vinula. 
sentation of the caterpillar and the moth of the Puss Moth (Dicra- 
nura vinula, Figs. 244, 245), as also the moth of the Dicranura 
verbasci, the former of which is common in Eneland, and the larva 
