74 ENEMIES OF THE CATERPILLAR. 
they still remain on their little stalks, and suck 
up the juices of the body through them, as through 
a tube. The caterpillar dies instead of becoming 
a chrysalis; but this does not matter to the grubs, 
as it is time for them to leave off eating, and 
become chrysalides themselves. 
The caterpillar of the puss-moth is constantly 
attacked by the ichneumon fly; and its body will 
sometimes be completely studded over with these 
little footstalks. As if in compassion, Nature has 
given it a kind of whip, on purpose to drive them 
away. The whip is, in fact, a forked tail, com- 
Puss-moth Caterpillar- 
pOSed of two long tubes, and fringed with short, 
stiff spines. 
