304 MEMOIR OF 
delicate specimens of the two great families 
Ephemeride and Phryganide, which appeared 
to have escaped the attention of our most careful 
entomologists. 
A better satisfied or more bustling trio has 
seldom been seen on the banks of that beautiful 
river than myself, battlmg with a large and 
vigorous trout, an active little boy with my 
pannier on his back, twisting and turning his 
landing net in every direction to get the fish into 
it, and Hobson at the time in full speed after 
some new-born ephemera to which he was giving 
chase across the meadows. 
During this visit we were quite satisfied that a 
great proportion of our Ephemeride and Phry- 
ganide are seldom seen except by anglers; and, 
had Hobson’s life been spared, the acknowledged 
accuracy which he had applied so successfully to 
the diminutive beauties of the vegetable kingdom, 
would have been most willingly devoted to the 
splendid little insects, which, in their short lived 
existence, occasion to the disciples of Isaac 
Walton, as well as to the entomologist, an ever 
varying interest in the matchless scenery of the 
Derbyshire rivers. 
