THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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bred from Meliloti. The egg, I admit, is larger, but this alone is not suffi- 

 cient to prove distinction. The burden lies on those who set up a new- 

 species to prove their case. In this instance it has not been and I am sure 

 cannot be done. 



55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 15th May, 1888. 



[The first portion of this paper was unavoidably left over last month, for want of space.] 



My brother has called my attention to Mr. TugwelFs note in the May 

 number of the " Young Naturalist." I have no wish at the present time to 

 enter into the controversy further than by saying. 



1. That in the extract from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 

 from which Mr. Tugwell quotes, I distinctly stated that I had a hundred 

 larva? of Trifolii at the time. There is no need therefore for conjecture on 

 the matter. 



2. That all my larvae were from the first, carefully kept apart in labelled 

 glass cylinders. 



3. That the food was obtained from time to time from a spot where no 

 Zygana whatever occurs. There is no possibility of any mistake having been 

 made in the experiment, at the result of which I was, I confess, at first sur- 

 prised. 



4. The difference in the markings of the larvae of the two forms is merely 

 one of degree. The markings themselves are identical (E. M. M., Vol. X., 

 p. 117), but in the young Meliloti that 1 had in 1872 and 1873, the spots 

 were so minute as to to be practically obsolete, while in Trifolii they are 

 strong. In the Meliloti I bred in 1875, the markings (Ent. Yol. 8., 212) 

 were much more developed, possibly because I had kept them in previous 

 years in a greenhouse in the shade and facing north, while in 1875 from the 

 first I kept them in one fully exposed the sun. — Thos. M. Bkiggs, Surrey 

 House, Leatherhead. 



NATURE IN JUNE. 



By ALBERT H. WATERS, B.A. 



" Thy summer woods 

 Are lovely, O my mother Isle ! the birch 

 Light bending on thy banks, thy elmy vales, 

 Thy venerable oaks ! " 



It is the latter part of the afternoon of a bright warm June day, as we set 

 off for a ramble. The aspect of nature is indeed cheerful and exhilarating, 



