[American Ind.] The larva of a fly, Ephydra californica, found in enormous quantities in Lake Mono in California.
When dried in the sun and the shell rubbed off these worms form a very important article of food among the Indians.
1885. Brewer, in Stand. Nat. Hist., II. 432. My guide, an old hunter there, told me that everything fattens in the season of the koo-chah-bee; that ducks get very fat.
