THE CATERPILLAR. 
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their rings one after the other as if a wave were 
flowing through their bodies. But the caterpillar 
with no legs in the middle of its body, lays hold 
of the branch with its fore-legs, and draws its 
tail close up to them, bending its body into a 
loop or arch. It is called a looper, because it 
gets over the ground by making a succession of 
these said loops. 
There is a very extraordinary caterpillar, found 
in India, and America, that has no legs of any 
kind. It hardly looks like a caterpillar, though 
by and bye it will change into a chrysalis, and 
become a moth.* Where the legs should be, are 
a number of fleshy protuberances, that enable it 
to shuffle along; and underneath its body is a 
* Limacodes, from Umax, a snail. 
