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if it is shown that its rights are to be exercised for the 
people’s benefit.” 
When I am gone to that place from whence there is no 
return; when this little effort is defeated by the hand of the 
aggressor; I trust some future entomologist may engrave on 
my tombstone:—“ He tried to save the People’s Forest for 
the people.” I desire no better epitaph. 
Insects infesting the Sheep.—1. The fag or tick.—The 
note in the May number has elicited several highly interest- 
ing communications, showing that there is great anxiety on 
the part of farmers and others to obtain more correct informa- 
tion. The fag or sheep-tick, of which I give a figure copied 
from Walker’s ‘Insecta Britannica,’ vol. ii. pl. xx. fig. 6, is 
the most familiar. It belongs to that strange and aberrant 
group of Dipterous insects, which are distinguished from all 
others by their peculiar metamorphosis, which has been thus 
described :—“ The species of this family pass their egg and 
larva state in the body of the mother, and when born are 
pupe, or larve just ready to assume the pupa state, as is 
proved by their size, which nearly equals that of the parent 
fly; by their slight motion when first extruded; by spiracu- 
liform points which run down each side of them; and by 
their changing into perfect flies. Each female produces only 
a single egg or ovipupa.” This rather disgusting-looking 
creature lives entirely in the wool, among the fibres of which 
