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YOUR correspondent (p. 389) will find a detailed account of the various defensive appliances of the larva of Cerura vinula in Prof. Poulton's work on the “Colours of Animals” (International Science Series), and in papers published by him in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 1886 and 1887, the latter papers being illustrated by beautiful coloured plates.
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KIRBY, W. Function of the Whips of the Larva of the Puss Moth. Nature 62, 413 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062413b0
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