60 FISHING GOSSIP. 
of the soul after bodily death, than the representation 
of an animal which, first a voracious, unseemly, 
ground-crawling grub, next falls into a state of com- 
plete torpitude, and then, casting off its temporary 
slough, becomes a light, lively, beautiful winged crea- 
ture of the air. 
Thé May-fly passes through a somewhat similar 
series of developments to those just attributed to 
the lepidopterous insects, but with the important 
difference that it undergoes an additional fourth 
change, which they do not. Instead. of at once 
springing from the pupa* to the imago form, it 
passes through a short intermediate stage, termed by 
naturalists the pseudimago, or false image, before it 
attains to the imago, or perfect insect. Hence arises 
the confusion between fishermen and entomologists 
on this question, the former terming the insect in its 
pseudimago state the green drake, in its imago state 
the grey drake, and, ignorant of the natural change 
that takes place, forming erroneous theories—such as 
the one being male, the other female, ete—to account 
for the slight difference in hue presented by the in- 
sect in these two states. Dr. Hagen, in the Hntomo- 
‘logist’s Annual for 1863, says, that “ Pictel first 
* The pupa of the May-fly does not assume the torpid, mummi- 
fied, swathed condition, from which the name is actually derived. 
It has limbs, can crawl and swim, but not fly, and thus comes 
under the class of pupx termed semicompleta. 
