EOOF WINGS. 55 



Head of the adult imago 

 Lengthened out and very slender, 

 Like a bird's beak bending downwards ; 

 Feelers long and many jointed, 

 Taper gradually outwards ; 

 All their wings alike and narrow. 

 Rayed across but never netlike ; 

 Body small, and in the male sex 

 Ending in a kind of forceps, 

 Like the scorpion's tail so horrid. 



Snakeflies, or Raphidiina, 

 Have a head thafs large and oval ; 

 A prothorax long and necklike. 

 Often moving sideways, snakelike ; 

 Feelers short and manyjointed, 

 Taper gradually outwards ; 

 Wings alike and always netlike. 

 Larva found in bark of timber, 

 Where, some say, it feeds on insects ; 

 Whether this be true I know not. 



Caddisflies, Phryganeina, 

 Simulate the moths so nearly 

 That the student first beginning 

 Finds the hkeness quite confusing. 

 They have hairy wings and bodies ; 

 Long antennae, manyjointed, 

 Very, very manyjointed. 

 Always stretched out straight before them ; 



