5 THE CLASSES. 



form of the carcase of the fly [see Creeper]. Their bodies 

 are smooth and fleshy, consisting of eight or nine joints, or 

 rings, and is about the length of the head and shoulders. 

 At the breast of each shoulder there is a pair of legs, and 

 they have two pairs of smooth oblong wings, which, when 

 folded, circle close over and beyond the body in a round 

 cylindrical form, giving most of the species the appearance 

 of a short piece of wire. The top wings shew veiny, and 

 stand on the middle shoulder ; the under wings stand on 

 the shoulder which joins the body. They have two feelers 

 at the head, and- most of them two whisks at the tail. 

 Their most prevailing color is brown, from which they are 

 named, on a yellow or orange ground ; and are very quick 

 runners both on land and water. All the class are day flies, 

 except the stone fly, which sometimes steal out in the gloom 

 of dark days, but generally in the dusk and twilight of 

 night. They are the earliest and latest angling flies ; most 

 of the species hatch in the spring, but some are on the 

 water nearly the seasons round. Some species, like the 

 stone fly, hatch the main swarm in two or three weeks, and 

 their generation disappear for the year; others, like the 

 needle brown, continue hatching and breeding through the 

 season. The streams of Eipon produce them in great num- 

 bers, and all fish that take flies feed off them greedily 

 for trout they may be considered the leading class. The 

 following species are in the class : 



Needle Brown .... Page 11 



Early Brown (or Winter Brown) . 13 



Little Early 13 



Red Brown 15 



Royal Charlie 20 



Light Brown 23 



Mottled Brown 25 



Stone Fly 28 



Bloa Brown 36 



Yellow Brown (Yellow Sally) . . 43 



Orange Brown 70 



