Crossword-Solution: SIALID 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Now we have the larvæ of the four great trout-fly families, Phryganeæ, Ephemeræ, Sialidæ, Perlidæ; 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.’ These are, surely, in their imperfect and perfect states, food enough to fatten many a good trout: but they are not all.

This group as restricted by modern authors is a small one, including the largest species, as in the Hellgrammite, the Lace-wing Flies, the Ant-lions, and the Mantispas representing the families, Sialidæ and Hemerobiidæ, with their subfamilies.

The families I do propose dealing with are the Sialidæ, Trichoptera, Diptera, and Perlidæ, as no one has yet, to my knowledge, described the position in which the wings of the imitations of these flies should be put.