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dun tribes. She hatches during this month and again in 

 autumn, when they are very numerous ; but like the stone 

 fly, she is seldom seen out in the daytime, but creeps into 

 the cracks and crevices of soil banks, overhanging sods, 

 etc., where she may be found by beating them \ in the dusk 

 of evening they come out and sport on the wing, probably 

 through the night. She is a fine fleshy fly, but not much 

 noticed by the craft. 



52ND. RED BEETLE. Full length about half an inch; 

 length the same ; wings near three-eighths, of a red-brown 

 tinge and amber transparency ; legs, back, belly, and breast, 

 dark or black ; head, shoulders, sides, and thighs, red as a 

 boiled lobster ; eyes black ; feet and feelers notched feelers 

 black at the ends ; under wings veined and shaded with 

 light and dark bloa. Comes early this month, and con- 

 tinues through the next. 



Amber feather from the cock-pheasant's breast, for wings ; 

 body, orange or yellow silk, tinged with the mole or water- 

 rat ; with a few orange and black fibres of mohair at the 

 breast ; or hen hackle for legs. 



5 3RD. MEALY BROWN BEETLE. Full length, better 

 than half an inch ; top wings a grey mealy brown, with 

 very little transparency ; under wings fine and clouded light 

 and dark bloa ; body, thighs, neck, chin, and feelers, a rich 

 deep orange ; centre of the belly and remaining parts, a 

 dusky brown ; eyes black. Are numerous among the grass, 

 in the fields, by the Ure side, the middle of this month 

 numbers were seen in the pasture opposite " Skittergate." 



Wings, from the grey brown feather from a mallard's 

 wing , orange silk for body, tinged with water-rat ; legged 

 with a yellow brown hen hackle, with a yellow stripe down 

 the middle. 



54TH. BROWN BEETLE. Full length, about three- 



