Fig. 236.—Liparis chrysorrhœa.
The females of this genus tear off the fur from the extremity of their abdomens to make a soft bed for their eggs, and to preserve them from the cold. And yet they are never to see their young, for they die after they have laid their eggs. Another tribe of Bombycina contains species of a small size, which are remarkable from the habits of their caterpillars, which make, with foreign bodies, cases, in the interior of which they live and undergo their metamorphoses.
The caterpillars of the genus Psyche live in a case composed of fragments of leaves, of bits of grass and straw, of small sticks of wood, or of little stones, stuck together, and intermixed with silky threads.
