THE SUBSTITUTE. 
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go away disappointed at their 
want of success, and this because 
the name of the insect directs 
them to Lulworlh instead of to the 
“ Burning Cliff’* where, no doubt, 
they would find it in plenty. — A. 
Pretor, Harrow; February 12, 
1867. 
Sir, — I am surprised at your publishing those lines, I will not call 
them verses, about the Hemiptera; they are as dull as the ditches 
where your correspondent finds his Nepina, which, to say truth, are not 
worth writing about. Imitation forsooth ! Where is the preamble, the 
peroration ? Where the prologue and epilogue in which I so grace- 
fully introduced the infant daughter of the Douglas.? a delicate com- 
pliment he will not forget when he is naming his novelties, for I sent 
him my card, in strict confidence, with a eopy of the verses. Here are 
some more verses, a large batch ; and I hope you will certify my entire 
repudiation of the Hemiptera nonsense. 
THE HYMENOPTERA DESCRIBED. 
Child of Douglas, Pauline Zeller, 
Youngest daughter of the poet. 
He who writ ‘ The World of Insects,’ 
Writ in prose a pleasant poem. 
Let me tell thee of the sawflies. 
Of the gallflies and ichneumons. 
Of the rubywasps and sandwasps, 
Of the bees and wasps and pismires. 
As I told thy sister Laura, 
All about the tribes of beetles. 
In describing all the inas 
Of these four-winged, clear-winged insects, 
I must tell you of their larvtn. 
Where they live and what they feed on. 
First a tribe of caterpillars. 
As of butterflies and nighlmoths. 
Living in the woods and hedges. 
On the juicy green leaves feeding, 
And resemlrling, too, the larvae 
Of the butterflies and nightmoths 
In the art of spinning cases. 
Inside which they change to pupte. 
When the sawfly — these are sawflies — 
When the sawfly once emerges 
From these silken gluey cases. 
And you look at its antenntn 
For some mark whereby to know it. 
