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VOL. 1. 



ST. LOUIS, MO., DECEMBER, 1868. 



NO. 4. 



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existence iu large, rapidly-flowing rivers, and 

 generally in such as have a more or less rocky 

 bottom. Here it crawls and swims about upon 

 the bottom, preying upon the various aquatic 

 larvie found iu great numbers in such situations, 

 such as May-flies {Ephemera family). Shad-flies 

 (Perla family), and the singular Caddis-worms 

 (JPhryganea family) . These last inhabit move- 

 able cases, constructed, according to the par- 

 ticular species, either of little bits of sticks and 



a, /, 



Colors— (a) iliirlc brow 



THE HELLGRAMMITE FLY. V' 



(Corijdalia cornutus, Linn.) 



(!)) whitisli, (c and < 



The gigantic larva (Fig. 56 «) of tliis gigantic 

 fly (Fig. 5G c) spends the earlier periods of its 



straw, of grains of sand, or in some instances of 

 living water-snails, which, along with other 

 materials, they weave, by means of the silk 

 which they spin from their tails, into a comfort- 



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