PART II 



THE EPHEMERID^ 



MR. HALFORD in the second part of "The Dry- 

 Fly Man's Handbook " has dealt fully with the 

 metamorphoses of the EPHEMERID.E. I will 

 therefore content myself with just stating the 

 bare fact that there are four stages in the life- 

 history of these interesting little flies the egg, 

 the larva or nymph, the sub-imago, which 

 fishermen term the dun, and the imago, which 

 they call the spinner. 



It will be as well for the angler to bear in 

 mind that the duns of both sexes are to be 

 found on the surface of the stream when emerg- 

 ing from (generally called by the fisherman 

 " hatching out of ") the nymphal covering ; 

 that the female imago returns to the water to 

 deposit her eggs, sometimes even climbing down 

 some weed stem or stone, and descending below 

 the surface for this purpose, and subsequently 

 falls " spent," and is carried down on the surface 

 by the current with wings outstretched ; but 

 that the male imago is only occasionally present 

 on the water, and then merely by the accident 

 of a sudden gust of w'nd, or through death 



