80 LIST OF FLIES. 



Orange brown. Full length, half an inch and near a six- 

 teenth. Out plentiful. 



Least f redded duns. Vast numbers at six p.m., running 

 in the sunshine, on walls, etc., near the water. 



Checkering. Hatching, some a shade darker. 



Red drake. Out in the daytime, and assemble in the 

 evening. Slanting lines on the sides. 



Needle brown. Numbers out and hatching. Brimstone 

 colored backs, light grizzle legs, and steely blue wings. 



TWENTIETH. 



Blue drake. Length, a quarter. Hatching numerous. 



Blue spinner or gnat. Out and hatching, increasing to 

 great numbers towards evening. 



Spinner. Out through the day, but most numerous 

 towards evening. 



Black ants. On the water in the afternoon until evening. 



Needle brown, little freckled dun. Hatching and out in 

 great numbers until evening. 



Orange brown. Out and hatching. 



Red ant. Saw several beds at Mr. Calvert's stone quarry, 

 in Skellgill ; length, a quarter and a sixteenth to three- 

 eighths. None with wings. Their eggs large, like small 

 maggots. Opened a pismire bed at the same place, full of 

 bright amber pismires, and numbers of them with thin 

 glassy clear wings. 



Light pied duns. Out in the evening. 



Late black spinner or gnat. Out all day. 



TWENTY-FIFTH. 



Little dark drake. Length, a quarter \ wings, a dark red- 

 dish water-hen hue ; legs, whisks, and body light red brown, 

 with a dark spot on each joint of the body, along each side ; 

 eyes dark and goggling; longish fore-legs. A cockish, 

 sprightly fly. 



