64 LIST OF FLIES. 



half the length ; body and upper parts touched with brown ; 

 belly, of some, bare, and of a yellow bees'-wax hue, ending 

 in a blunt point ; the feelers are short, and of an amber 

 hue ; eyes, dark or black. 



Slips for wings may be found in the white or broken 

 feathers of the yellow or screech owl ; body, etc., light 

 tawny colored woollen thread, legged with a tawny hen 

 hackle. 



The white dun, or " bustard " of the craft, is classed with 

 the duns, being nearly of the same construction, but is con- 

 sidered a land fly. They appear about the middle of this 

 month, and continue until near the end of July. They are 

 found flying about in meadows and long grass, from half- 

 past nine to half-past ten at night, when they are taken by 

 the craft and fished natural, with great success, for large 

 trout take them greedily in streams where the stone fly 

 does not come or is on the decline. These large flies are 

 generally fished natural, which is termed " dibbing " or 

 "dabbing." The stone fly, green and grey drakes, and 

 white bustard, are the chief, being all good to get. There 

 is the brown bustard and spotted moth, both night flies, 

 but do not shew themselves in numbers like the others. 

 They come out about half-past nine every fine night, and 

 continue into August. The brown bustard is similar in size 

 and shape to the white top wings shades of brown, with 

 zig-zag lines and marble streaks ; the other parts red brown, 

 about the shade of the tawny parts of hare's fur. The 

 spotted moth : length five-eighths wings three-quarters, 

 which it erects like a butterfly, or lays them flat like a 

 moth ; they are of a yellow white ground, spotted with a 

 rich dark brown, touched at the shoulders and across the 

 broad parts with yellow. Under-wings, no yellow and less 

 spotted ; body and shoulders smooth fleshy and yellow, 

 with a black spot on the top of the shoulders and each joint 

 down the back, and black spots along each side. Feelers 



