36 LIST OF FLIES. 



They wing and wheel over the whole face of the water in 

 dry and warm times, rousing the fish ; when the best imit- 

 ation cannot work. Like the small midge and gnat tribes, 

 they may trifle away time, but do little for the pannier. 



32ND. BLOA BROWN. Full length, near or about half 

 an inch ; length, three-eighths ; wings, three-eighths, which, 

 when folded, are of a light grizzly blue tinge, and when 

 looked through are glassy and colorless, with small veins, 

 and a dark patch or blot on the outer edge. Head, shoul- 

 ders, and body, a brown orange tinge ; legs, a brown amber 

 dim transparency. Is about the substance of the early 

 brown, and commences hatching early this month. 



Snipe bloa feather from under the wing ; yellow or orange 

 silk, with a few fibres of ambry-brown mohair at th e 

 breast. 



33RP. LITTLE DARK DRAKE. Length about a quarter; 

 wings, a quarter or better, altogether of the hue of the 

 water-hen's breast. When held up to the light the middle 

 joints of the body shew lighter, like the iron blue, but the 

 iron blues are a blue grey, and the little dark drake a dim 

 red. Eyes dark and cockling. She commences hatching 

 about the middle of this month, and continues through the 

 summer ; then she casts her skin and becomes the little red 

 drake. 



Winged and legged with a small feather from the water- 

 hen or water-rail ; body, orange silk, waxed. 



34TH. LITTLE BED DRAKE. Length, a quarter ; wings, 

 a quarter or better, clear and transparent, with red tinges 

 and reflections ; shoulders, red ; body, a red lemony dim 

 transparency ; eyes, red brown, large, and goggling. Long 

 whisks, which stand square, and long fore-legs, of a red 

 light-brown dim transparency. Muster in groups towards 

 evening. 



