62 LIST OF FLIES. 



are a red brown freckle, and dim transparency ; they often 

 stand erect, and seem jointed to two short tufts, which 

 stand upright on the head. They hatch this month, in the 

 middle of the day, and are out in the evenings ; they are 

 often met with under broad leaves by the water sides. 



Wings selected from the landrail, or a red or yellow dun 

 hen ; body, copper-colored silk, tinged with water-rat's fur ; 

 legs, a cream-colored hen hackle, or light hairs from the 

 hare's ear. 



73RD. VERMILLION DRAKE. Length, near a quarter ; 

 wings, near a quarter, which, with the legs and whisks, are 

 of a dim light (almost white) transparency ; shoulders and 

 body a light lemony ground of dim transparency, touched and 

 pencilled on the upper parts with a rich vermillion red. 

 She hatches about the middle of this month, on warm sunny 

 afternoons, and continues into July. She casts her skin; 

 which takes with it the vermillion touches, when her body 

 and shoulders are of a rich lemon or straw color ; wings, 

 clear and glassy, with pinky sparklings. She is a pet of 

 summer, not very numerous, and probably of no use to the 

 angler ; her delicate texture and colors are bad to imitate, 



Small straw or lemon colored silk, and a small white 

 pinky cock's hackle, for legs and wings. 



74TH. DARK PIED DuN. 39 Full length three-eighths; 

 length about a quarter ; feelers near five-eighths, spotted 

 light and dark. Wings a very dark dun, almost black, 

 with two small white lines on the upper, and two on the 

 lower edge of each ; and, when folded, the upper lines join 

 and form two small white stripes across the back, tinged 



(39) I am inclined to think that this fly is intended to represent the " Black 

 Silver-horns " of Jackson, and that the following fly, No. 75, is the variety 

 with a bright jet black wing which Mr. Ronalds states is found upon some streams ; 

 Jackson styles the latter " The Shining Black Silver-horns ; " I have met with them 

 both on the Yore, near Masham, but on no other Yorkshire river. Mr. Francis states 

 that this fly is a favourite with the fish in the north of France, but I have never had 

 great sport with it myself. 



