144 London Insects. 



insect disguised for a time in a form very unlike its 

 own. 



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 magnifying 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 whole- 

 sale 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 



