AMERICAN TROUT-STREAM INSECTS 



gent search I find no duplicate in form and color 

 of the insects native to American streams. 



For that and some other reasons it is far prefer- 

 able to go along original lines, at least in the be- 

 ginning, if we wish to simphfy this important sub- 

 ject. To copy the natural insect faithfully, then 

 to give it a common (and what I hope will become 

 a familiar) name that is distinctly and typically 

 American, will be a start in the right direction to 

 attain order and system in classification. 



It is out of my province as an artist angler to 

 search out from books on entomology the Latin 

 names of each species caught and pictured. The 

 work is quite difficult enough as it is; and I doubt 

 if it would serve any good purpose or that such 

 names are desired by the humble followers of the 

 immortal Izaak Walton, who, like myself, prefer 

 to devote precious time to more useful things. I 

 find upon careful inquiry that no book has yet been 

 issued on the entomology of American aquatic in- 

 sects alluring to trout, nor have these insects been 

 even classified. I was asked by an angling expert 

 who was examining my drawings, "Why don't you 

 give the proper Latin names to each fly?" My an- 

 swer was, "I would do so, but no entomologist has 

 yet made any effort to classify American trout in- 

 sects into orders or divisions, families and species, 

 as has been done in France and England." It 

 would take a lifetime of not one man, but several, 



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