Ephemera: NEUROPTERA; i 55 



infedfc generally celebrating its nuptials, pro- 

 ducing the fruit of them, and dying within the 

 Ipace of a few hours, feldom or never furviving 

 the day on which it may be faid to have really 

 begun to live. 



They differ no lefs from other infe&s, In 

 the manner of propagating their fpecies, than 

 in the fhortnefs of their lives, and their long 

 continuation in the caterpillar ftate. The fe~ 

 male Ephemera has no fooner quitted her 

 chryfalis, than lhe returns to the water from 

 whence lhe fprang, upon the furface of which 

 lhe lays her eggs •, the male, attentive to all 

 her motions, takes care immediately to fecmK 

 date the eggs, nearly in the fame manner as fifh 

 fecundate thofe of their females. (Geoff.) 



The antennse of the perfeft infefl: refemble 

 hairs, being without joints or articulations. 

 When at reft, the fore legs are advanced or 

 ftretched out before the head. 



The Ephemeras are very frequent near wa- 

 ters : they multiply amazingly in fome places, 

 infomuch that Scopoli afferts the peafants in 

 his neighbourhood to be difcontented with 



their 



