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NEUROPTERA* 
the fetting of the fun, towards the - middle of 
Auguft. 
The females, by the help of the threads of their 
tail* and the happing of their wings; fupport them- 
felves on the furface of the water, and in that almott 
upright fituation, drop their eggs in clutters : one 
will lay feven or eight hundred, which fink to the 
bottom. The larvae fupply food for fiffi. 
They are called with us Alay-Jlies . 
GENUS 3.—PHRYGANEA. 
The letter Phryganeae refemble the Tinex fo much 
as not to be diftinguifhed without difficulty ; but the 
wings of the former are covered with hairs, intteaa 
of the fcales which adorn the wings of the Tineae. 
The larvae belonging to this genus, live in the 
water in tubes of ttlk, covered on the outfide with 
fmall pieces of wood, fand, gravel* leaves of plants* 
&c.. nay, fometimes the larva attaches to its tube 
the fmaller tettaceous animals, yet alive, with their 
fhells, and drags them about with it: they contrive 
to make their habitations nearly in equilibrium with 
the water, when too heavy they add a bit of wood 
cr ftraw, when too light a bit of gravel ; when the 
hexapod is about to change to a chrylalis* he ttops up 
the opening of his tube, with threads of a loofe tex¬ 
ture, through which the water makes its way, but the 
approach of ^voracious infefts is prevented- The 
chrvfalis 
