60 LIST OF FLIES. 



night fly, when she may be taken ; but she is not much 

 used or noticed by the craft. 



JUNE. 



THE queen and empress reign harmonious, and shine resplen- 

 dent in the gilded sides of the fatted troufc ! The travelling 

 stream presents its daily stores, and nightly forages gorge 

 his craving maw. Stately he glides in his forenoon rounds, 

 and selects his lunch from the browns or checkwing. 

 Drowsy he doses the sultry hours of noon, till roused by 

 the Queen to dinner ; and he sups through the night until 

 gorged by visits of the Imperial fly. Grayling cling close 

 to the bustle of sharp streams, but are ever found in the 

 eddies. 



70TH. HORNED DuN.36 Full length, half an inch and 

 one-sixteenth ; length near half an inch ; top wings a darkish 

 cigar brown, rather lighter on the main veins, and downy ; 

 head, dark, flat, and downy ; shoulders a dark brown color, 

 and downy ; body, a dark leady color ; belly, ashy reflec- 

 tions ; thighs, ashy ; legs, light brown ; feelers often erected 

 upright, like horns, which has named them. They com- 



(36) Mr. Francis informs me that in the south they class together a great num- 

 ber of flies similar to the above under the common denomination of " Sedge Fly ; " 

 they belong to the numerous family of the Phryganidas, of which perhaps the " Sand 

 Fly," " Green-tail " and " Cinnamon Fly," are the most useful types ; the author repro- 

 duces an unnecessary number of these flies, all having the same dressing for their 

 bodies, viz., " copper-coloured silk tinged with water-rat's fur." Mr. Francis is of 

 opinion that the fish feed principally upon these insects in the caddis state, but that 

 at times they may prove useful in the evening. 



