46 LIST OF FLIES. 



and their appearance is like a piece of dark down. 



Body, small copper- colored silk ; winged and legged 

 with a neck feather from the golden plover. 



47TH. LIGHT DRAKE (light watchet). Length, a 

 quarter to near three-eighths ; wings, the same, of a 

 fine light smoky-blue tinge and transparency : the 

 veins and crossings slight. Head, shoulders, body, 

 feelers, and legs, a dim yellow some have three 

 whisks, and a little darker, and some a shade darker 

 generally. 



From their varying in sizes and shade there may be 

 two species of this beautiful little Drake. They begin 

 to hatch early this month, and may be seen nearly 

 through the season. They cast their skins and be- 

 come a light red drake. 



Blue-dim feathers from a tern or sea swallow, for 

 wings ; body, yellow or straw colored silk ; with a few 

 fibres of amber fur, from the squirrel, at the breast. 



48TH. LIGHT RED DRAKE. About the size of the 

 light drake. Wings exceedingly slight and colorless, 

 scarce visible but for their slight red sparklings ; body, 

 light red or amber, a shade darker on the back ; legs 

 and whisks, a light dim red ; eyes, cockling. Are out 

 in the day-time and evenings. 



Fine small red cock's-hackle for wings and legs ; 

 amber silk for body. 



49iH. FCETED DUN. Full length, better than half 

 an inch ; length, three-eighths ; feelers, three-eighths ; 

 wings, near half an inch, slightly downed, and of a 



