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lives in the interior of willows and other trees. It was on this 
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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, 245.—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 
