56 FLIES FOR MARCIT. 



No. 5. GREAT DARK DRONE. 



This fly is found upon the grass in a very dull 

 (almost torpid) state, until nine or ten o'clock in 

 the morning ; (whence its name of Drone) but 

 when the sun begins to warm the air, it takes 

 wing ; and afterwards, if there be a slight breeze, 

 it will be found upon the water. 



There is a great variety of colour in the family. 

 A bright orange is sometimes seen all over the 

 body, a lemon colour sometimes pervades only the 

 middle part of the body, the knee joints are some- 

 times tipped with orange, sometimes orange veins 

 appear in the wings ; but the black body is by far 

 the most frequently met with, and therefore the fly 

 with this colour is usually fished with. 



IMITATION. 



BODY. Mole fur, or black ostrich feather, 



warped with black silk. 

 WINGS AND LEGS. Made buzz with a dun 



hackle, the tint lighter than that of 



the natural wings. (See Chap. II. 



p. 31.) 



When this fly is made with wings and legs 

 not buzz, the dun feather of the wing of the mal- 

 lard is used, and a grizzle hackle for legs, upon 

 the same body. 



