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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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n hexagonal meshes like bobinetwithin which is the inner cocoon of closely woven finer threads. Adults reared fromthese beautiful cocoons proved to be this species. The first appeared on June 18and throughout the remainder of the month they were fairly common. Then they Explanation of Plate 5. Fig.I 5 CUtnacia dict^ona Needham. Imago, lateral view, x 4. Imago, dorsal view, x 3. Larva, dorsal view, x 6. Pupal cases, in situ, natural size. One of the same, enlarged, showing the hexagonal meshes of the outer covering. N$iSYr& mnbrata Needham. 6. Imago, lateral view, x 4. 7. Imago, dorsal view, x 3. 8. Two newly formed pupae, lateral and ventral views, x 6. 9. Macronychus glabratus Say (Coleoptera : Parnidae); an associate of the sponge fly larvae, on submerged timbers. 10. Fresh-water sponges (Spongilla ? fragilis Leidy) in situ, with the sponge fly larvae crawling about over them. 11. Two pupal cases of S. umbrata, showing the closely woven outer covering, nat- ural size.522 Plate 5
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L. H. Joutel, 1900 Spongilla Flies James B. Lyon, State Printer Reprint from N.Y. State Museum Bulletin, 47, REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 523 disappeared for a time but were present in some numbers about the middle ofAugust. They were taken a few times in trap lanterns and also in sweeping aquaticvegetation, but the hatchery ceiling was the best collecting ground. The larvae andpupae are very similar in form and habits to those of Sisyra described above. Caddis Flies. The caddis flies are known to lovers of nature as case worms, so frequentlyseen at the bottom of streams. Fishermen are also acquainted with these curiouslarvae, and if one has never seen them, they are comparatively easy to find byexamining closely the bottom of almost any body of water. One may see hereand there a peculiar, usually somewhat cylindrical case, made of some of thematerials found at hand. For example, these cases are not infrequently made oftwo sticks of wood, one longer than the other,

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