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  • Planipennia: applied to Neuroptera in which the wings are large and laid flat on the body wnen at rest; Sialidae, Myrmeleonidae, etc.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Phryganeae, Ephemerae, Sialidae, Perlidae; so you have no excuse for telling -- as not only Cockneys, but really good sportsmen who write on fishing, have done -- such fibs as that the green drake comes out of a caddis-bait, or giving such vague generalities as, 'this fly comes from a water-larva.'

    Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

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