ephemera

The Ephemera is the fly which is born but to die, living a single hour of love.

The Ephemera and probably the other Neuroptera have abdominal spiracles.

The cut represents the circulation in the vessels of the larva of an Ephemera.

That was it—as indifferent as we could be to the struggle of an ephemera; and as mildly curious.

Near the water side I caught an Ephemera, of which I made a drawing and description.

It was so indistinct as to remain only among the ephemera of my fancy.

Let them be as ephemera—to last an hour, and not be regretted when gone.

Well, what do you, the latest of the ephemera, want with fame?

At the spot of our encampment, as soon as the shades of night closed in, we were visited by hordes of ephemera.

Sometimes he glanced over the magazines and newspapers to see how “Ephemera” was being maltreated.