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NEW NAMES FOR FLIES 



After tying these artificial imitations from my 

 drawings of the living insects, I found it necessary 

 that a new name be given them in order to identify 

 one from the other, both for my own use in future 

 and to assist others who may perhaps want artifi- 

 cials copied true to the natural insect. This per- 

 plexing problem I solved in having the names 

 chosen to denote some particular form or color of 

 each individual insect in the various classes. To 

 name flies after rivers, places, or people is provin- 

 cial, commonplace, and utterly in bad taste. We 

 could not follow the names found in English books 

 on angling flies ; nor the flies that by age are so well 

 known as typical American flies. Assuming the 

 insects pictured in English books on entomology 

 or angling to be exact copies of nature, after dili- 



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