44 LIST OF FLIES. 



one-sixteenth, which, when closed, are of a dark brown 

 ground, rankly spotted or freckled over with dull yellow or 

 buff color ; with gilded reflections in the sun ; under wings 

 a snipe bloa hue, fringed at the edges ; top ones, when 

 looked through, a blue-dun tinge ; shoulders, body, feelers, 

 thighs, and legs, coppery, with its blue tarnish of lighter or 

 darker shade. 



They are very like the freckled dun, but much smaller. 

 Commence hatching with the month, and are out numerous 

 most part of the day and in the evenings, through summer. 



Wings, a rankly freckled feather from the snipe or jud- 

 cock ; tinged and legged with blue-dun fur. 



46TH. LEAST DuN. 29 Full length, about one-eighth of 

 an inch. Top wings downy, fringed and freckled like the 

 goat-sucker, and glistening in the sun with coppery and 

 gilded reflections ; legs and body a dark cloudy dun, which 

 grows more coppery as the season advances ; under wings 

 plain and fringed, of a uniform blue-bloa tinge, 



They are the least of the dun tribes, and like others of 

 its size, scarce worth the angler's notice. They commence 

 hatching with the month, and continue increasing through 

 most of the season. In September they are out most of the 

 day, and are exceedingly numerous and brisk in the even- 

 ings ; they run very quick, and their appearance is like a 

 piece of dark down. 



Body, small copper-colored silk ; winged and legged with 

 a neck feather from the golden plover. 



47TH. LIGHT DRAKE (Light Watchet). Length, a quar- 

 ter to near three-eighths ; wings the same, of a fine light 

 smoky-blue tinge and transparency ; the veins and cross- 



(29) When seen with the naked eye, this minute insect resembles a small speck 

 of down on the surface of the water, but when looked at through a magnifying glass 

 it is exactly represented by the figure in the page of illustrations, it may, however, 

 be reckoned in the same category as the black midge, and denominated the " fisher- 

 man's curse." 



