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Flak 1b COxK, 
PHRYGANEA RHOMBICA. 
SPRING FLy. 
NEUROPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Mouth furnifhed with four palpi. Antenne longer than the 
‘Thorax. Firft Wings laid horizontally on the body. Under Wings 
folded, and concealed beneath. . 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings greyifh brown, Firft pair marked with rhombic whitifh 
fpots, 
PHRYGANEA RuOMBICA alis grifeis: macula laterali rhombica alba. 
Linn. Syft. Nat.—Fab. Ent, Syft. T. 4. p. 77. 13. 
Reel. Inf.2. Aqu. 2. tab. 16. 
Schaff. Iron. tab. 99. fig. 5. 6. 
The Phryganea undergo their transformations in the water: in 
the larva ftate they are taken by the fifhermen for bat; and, in 
fome parts of Holland, are found fo abundant, that they are ufed 
as a cheap manure for the land. In the larva fate, they gene- 
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