34 TRIBES OF THE 



And you look at its antennae 



For some mark -whereby to know it, 



You will fail ; tlaey are so varied 



'Tis impossible to fix on 



Any definite description : 



Some are knobbed and some are threadlike, 



Some are forked and some are fanlike : 



All have four wings, clear and gUttering, 



And a thick and fleshy body, 



Uniform throughout in thickness, 



Not nipped in and slenderwaisted, 



Like a wasp or like a spider : 



They have all the feet fivejointed. 



Fore shanks twospurred at the summit : 



One sex only bears a weapon 

 Near the tail, beneath the body. 



Sharply notched and very sawlike. 



And with this she quickly pierces 



A young leaf or juicy sucker. 



And her eggs sedately places 



In the wound she has created ; 



From this saw we call them Sawflies, 



Sawflies or Tenthredinixa. 

 Next, a tribe with footless larvae, 



Wliite, and fat, and stupid maggots. 



On the solid timber feeding. 



Burrowing deep into its substance. 



Leaving galleries behind them : 



