Reference has been made to the general problem of gill movements of ephemerid nymphs (Eastham, 1932), and the special features presented by Caenis horaria have already been described (Eastham, 1934). The following is an account of gill movement in Leptophlebia marginata.

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The extent to which this angle is directed posteriorly increases as we pasa along the gills from before backwards.

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