MARCH. 19 



back; wings, clear and sparkling, with orange reflections. 

 Body, orange or yellow silk, with orange or golden 

 tinged cock's hackle, for wings and legs. 



10TH. GOLDEN LEGG'D BEETLE. Full length, about 

 a quarter ; outsides all black and shiny ; legs, a barley 

 sugar color and transparency, which, in some, sparkle 

 in the sun with brilliant glistenings of pale gold ; the 

 under wings are soft, fine, and transparent, tinged with 

 the color of the legs. They are bred in the water, and 

 come out the beginning of this month, and take wing 

 on fine days, through the season. They may be found 

 under loose stones by the water sides. 



Wings, from the gilded feather in the magpie's tail ; 

 body, a strand or two of the same ; legged with a few 

 fibres of honey or gold colored mohair. 



HTH. TORTOISE SHELL BEETLE. Full length, 

 about a quarter ; top wings, brown, with four marks 

 or spots of a lighter shade, and, when looked through 

 to the light, resemble the lights and darks of tortoise 

 shell ; body, dark brown ; thighs, an amber or dull 

 ale color and transparency, darkening to the feet. 

 They are bred in the water, and may be found with 

 the golden legs to the end of the season, but are not 

 so numerous query, are they male and female ? 



Wings, slips from a rankly freckled feather from the 

 woodcock, moorcock, or snipe ; body, orange silk or 

 magpie's gilded harl, with a few fibres of amber mohair, 

 or squirrel's fur, at the breast, in imitation of the legs. 



12i'H. HERON SPINNER. Full length about one- 



