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light copper color. 



This is a fine dun fly, the produce of the stickbait. 

 They appear to hatch twice a-year, commencing this 

 month ; and are plentiful in May and June, and again 

 in September and October. After hatching they may 

 be seen flying about, in the day-time ; their eggs are 

 an amber color. 



Winged and legged with a freckled feather from the 

 moorcock ; and orange silk or copper colored silk, for 

 body ; winged with slips from the moorcock, and legged 

 with moorcock's hackle ; body, tinged with water-rat's 

 blue fur. 



43RD. LIGHT DUN. Full length, better than half 

 an inch to five-eights; length, three-eights or more; 

 wings, better than half an inch, the top ones near the 

 shade of the outer skin of a dried- onion, with faint 

 mottles and crossings a shade darker; body, thighs, 

 and legs, a light bees'-wax hue and transparency ; eyes, 

 dark or black. Is altogether of a light dim ambry 

 tinge, and dim transparency. 



This fly is the produce of the codbait. They com- 

 mence hatching this month, and are plentiful in May 

 and June, and again in autumn ; but are out most in 

 the dusk of evening. There are varieties of them, 

 some darker freckles and smaller size. The artificial 

 cases of some of the codbait tribe, have small particles 

 of vegetable substances mingled with those of stone, 

 attached to them, which may impart a darker shade or 

 freckle to the flies. The largest codbait creepers, 

 when the case is covered with particles of stone only, 

 produce the largest and lightest colored flies. 



