TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



To return to our entomology, from the larval 

 stage the insect passes into the intermediate 

 one of the pupa, and finally evolves into the 

 imago or perfect insect. Some larvae spin co- 

 coons in the intermediate state in which they 

 envelop themselves; a naked pupa is a chrysalis. 

 Thus the pupae of many insects are nearly 

 motionless and partake of no food; the pupae 

 of others, as of the dragon-fly, are active and 

 voracious. (They look something like a cricket, 

 but are of a greenish-brown color rather than 

 black, and are insectiverous. They have six 

 mottled legs. The body comes to an oval point 

 at the tail and is of triangular section regular 

 "torpedo-boat" stern with a ridge up the 

 middle of the back, and presents a ribbed ap- 

 pearance due to the overlapping plates of its 

 coat of armor. The head is that of .a miniature 

 bullfrog. You can dig them out of marshy, 

 muddy places along shore, among the debris of 

 decaying vegetation. They are an excellent 

 perch bait, fished near the bottom.) Again, this 

 intermediate state in certain species differs only 

 from the larva in the possession of wings, or 

 from the imago in that the wings are yet rudi- 

 mentary and unfit for perfect flight. Insects 

 that closely resemble their parents immediately 

 on hatching out from the egg are said to present 

 an incomplete metamorphosis and their young 

 at all stages are called nymphs (nymphce). 

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