ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



May-fly as she lies exhausted on the water, 

 with flat, outstretched wings, after having de- 

 posited her eggs. Again, no less an authority 

 than William C. Harris noted not so many 

 years ago in a list of artificials the Stone- or 

 Caddis-fly. But the stone-fly is classed under 

 the PerlidcBy while we understand that caddis 

 (caddice) is the name of a family of the neurop- 

 terous order of insects the Trichoptera whose 

 larvae, called caddis worms, look not unlike 

 miniature hellgramites and emerge from cylin- 

 drical cases that are open at the ends. The 



Caddis-fly (artificial case, larva, and imago) and another 

 neuropterous insect 



Cinnamon (also called Fetid Brown, from its 

 odor) is a caddis-fly. It is useless to attempt 

 to reconcile these irregularities and discrep- 

 ancies; one simply must accept them. 



Walton has a spirited description of various 

 kinds of "Cadis-" or "case-worms," and tells 

 how their artificial houses in which the creatures 

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