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CHAPTER VIII. 



The Alder Fly Sedge Flies The Grannom The Needle 

 Brown The Silver Horns The Hawthorn Fly The 

 Peacock Fly The Gold-eyed Gauze-wing The Black 

 Gnat The Red Ant The Cowdung Fly The Coch-y- 

 bonddhu Fancy Flies The ' Wickham's Fancy 'The 

 Red Tag The Coachman The Governor The Orange 

 Bumble The Claret Bumble. 



THE ALDER FLY. 



WITH the close of the preceding chapter we bid 

 adieu to the interesting Ephemera. Those flies 

 which remain to be referred to belong, for the 

 greater part, to the trichopterous or hairy-winged 

 class ; some few of them are neuropterous, or 

 nerve-winged, but they belong to the same genus. 

 Amongst these latter may be reckoned the family 

 of Perla. I do not desire to weary the reader, or 

 to confuse him with a laboured essay on ento- 

 mology. I should probably bore him, and get 

 into a veritable quagmire of long names, and find 

 myself wandering into regions which I had better 

 keep out of altogether. Suffice it to say that the 

 alder fly is one of the Perlidae. It is not a 

 beautiful fly, it is not even good* looking ; but if 



