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three-eighths, which, with the legs, are a red brown dim 

 transparency. There is also a light freckled brown moth, 

 of the size of the spotted, but more downy, and of the tawny 

 hue. There are other moths out at night in the summer 

 part of the season, of the dark brown freckle of the night- 

 jar, but the light colored flies are best taken. There is a 

 small long-snouted (three-eighths) silvery moth makes itself 

 very conspicuous, from its numbers, from eight to ten on 

 fine evenings through July ; and sometimes rouses the 

 smaller fish. It often occurs, in both moths and flies, that 

 there are two or three different sizes, all of the same colors 

 like the freckled, little freckled, and least freckled duns, 

 etc., etc. 



77TH. RED ANT FLY. 42 Full length, three-eighths to 

 half an inch ; length, a quarter to three-eighths ; wings the 

 same, which are veined, and of a brown tinge ; they fold 

 flat one upon the other over the back, and reach beyond 

 the body. Shoulders and body thick ; waist small, which, 

 with the head, are all of a dark red brown color, legs and 

 feelers the same ; when held up to the light, shew thick 

 amber and red transparencies. Are altogether glossy and 

 smooth, but a fine short hair may be seen, through a glass, 

 on the parts which, in the sun, throw off short gilded reflec- 

 tions. They are well taken by the fish whenever they 

 come upon the waters. This species have but one pair of 

 wings. 



The shoulders and body are usually formed with a small 

 strand of a peacock's feather, with small red or amber silk, 

 with a few fibres of red brown mohair wrought in at the 



(42) This is a favourite fly of mine during July, August, and September ; in the 

 latter month grayling take it readily, and I seldom fish without having one on my 

 cast. In Derbyshire the local anglers use the ant's egg as a bottom bait, I am told, 

 with considerable success, but I have never seen it used upon any of the Yorkshire 

 rivers, and have never tried it myself. Mr. Ronalds remarks, " The ant eggs used 

 as a bottom bait after a fresh, are, in fact, cocoons, inclosing the insects in a pupa 

 state." 



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