48 LIST OF FLIES. 



a light red ambry hue and dim transparency ; the up- 

 per wings slightly broken with faint freckle, lines, and 

 marks ; under-wings plain, and fold up double ; body, 

 fleshy, nearly cylindrical, and better than half the 

 length, shewing the light side lines. They vary in 

 shades and sizes the spring flies, called musk flies 

 from their musky smell, are of a lighter shade. In 

 September they are more of a cinnamon hue : some 

 shew more freckle and darker ground. 



Wings, slips from the landrail, brown owl, or red 

 dun hen ; with coppery or amber silk, for body ; legged 

 with a red dun hen hackle. 



The red dun is the largest, and master fly, of the 

 aquatic dun tribes. She hatches during this month 

 and again in autumn, when they are very numerous ; 

 but like the stone fly, she is seldom seen out in the day 

 time, but creeps into the cracks and crevices of soil 

 banks, overhanging sods, etc., where she may be found 

 by beating them ; in the dusk of evening they come 

 out and sport on the wing, probably through the night. 

 She is a fine fleshy fly, but not much noticed by the 

 craft. 



52ND. RED BEETLE. Full length, about half an 

 inch ; length, the same ; wings, near three-eighths, of a 

 red brown tinge and amber transparency ; legs, back, 

 belly, and breast, dark or black ; head, shoulders, sides, 

 and thighs, red as a boiled lobster ; eyes, black ; feet 

 and feelers, notched feelers, black at the ends ; under 

 wings, veined and shaded with light and dark bio. 

 Comes early this month, and continues through the 

 next. 



