39* INSECTS. NEUROPTERA. 75. Ephemera. 
• Putlla. Wings hyaline, not coloured. . 
a. Body red with yellow and black lines at each fegment: 
green wiih yellow lines : wing* with marginal ipots. 
Donovan’s Eng. Inf. I. tab. 2 . 
b. Body fleih-colour : wings with a brown marginal dot. 
' Reaum Inf. 6. tab- 4. and 4. tab. i \ .fg. 6. 
c. Body alternately blue and cinereous ; wings with a black dot* 
RotJ. Inf. 2 . aquat. 2 tab. 10 fig. 3, 4. .5 
d. Body beneath blue green, above brown j thorax with ahef” 
brown and blueilh bands : wings with a black marginal do ' 
Roef. In! 2. aquat 2. tab. W fig. 7. . 
e. Body green with a flelh-colour blulh : thorax with 3 black 1 *” 
wings with a brown marginal dot. 
Inhabits Europe, in almoft endlcfs varieties, 
CiUata, Green-bronzed: abdomen brown : legs fringed black- 
Inhabits Coromandel In the mufeum of Sir Banks. 
Head and thorax bronzed ; abdo.nen cylindrical. 
.Hobibtata. Upper-wings dulky; lower-oncs filky-green tipt 
black 
Inhabits South America, 
£®(^ gtofly-grcen : beneath black. 
Linearis. Wings with a yellowilh or black ftigma: abdonicit 
tremely long. 
Inhabits India. Drury Inf z. tab, fig. 1. 
Body brown : abdomen cylindrical. 
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Mouth without 
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75. EPHEMERA. 
bles: JeeLers 4, very Ihoit filiform : - 
nee ihort tiJifbrm: above the eyes 
3 large ftemmata : wings erebf , the lo''* 
ones much Ihorter: tail terminating 
long briltles or hairs. 
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rhefe Ihort lived animals are found everywhere 
in the fummer, and in their perfeft ftate feldom 
day, fome of them not an hour, during which timo 
form all the funflions of life and anfwer all the ends o b; 
The larva Wwci under water and is eagerly fought ' v*'h^ 
trout and other fi(h, is 6:fqoted adtive and furnilhe“ 
tail and 6 lateral fins or gills : the pupa refcmblcs t)> ^ 
except in having rudiments joffuturc wings. a, 
