86 LONDON INSECTS 



If Mr. Worth, or whoever else may be the high-priest 

 of the day, should wish for a new combination of grey 

 and brown velvet for a lady's winter dress, with tippets 

 and sleeve-trimmings of fur in two colours, light and 

 dark the whole relieved, if his copy is to be exact 

 (Nature registers no copyrights in her designs), by a 

 bow of white satin below each shoulder he will find a 

 model ready dressed, dark gloves reaching to the elbow 

 and all complete, if he looks through a low-power 

 inagnifying-glass at a Gamma Moth the ' Silver Y ' is 

 its other name which must be as common in Paris as 

 it is in London. 



With all due admiration for the present energetic 

 management of the parks and gardens, one cannot help 

 feeling a little low at times on seeing the wholesale 

 clearance necessary, no doubt, but none the less sad 

 that is being made of all the shabby old trees. 



' Like flies that haunt a wound, or deer, or men, 

 Or almost all that is hurting the hurt.' 



Caterpillars and small boring things of all sorts attack, 

 as a rule, only failing trees ; and no ten of the young 

 trees can, in this generation, be of half as much interest 

 for an insect-hunter as one of the old worm-eaten fellows 

 cut down to make room for them. All are, however, 

 not yet gone, and there is still in Kensington Gardens 

 at least one tree remaining, a balsam poplar, riddled, 

 like the rock of Gibraltar, with tunnels running in 

 every direction. 



The engineers who first drove them were probably 

 the larvae of Goat Moths, but the lower galleries, to the 



