MAY. 49 



Amber feather from the cock -pheasant's breast, for 

 wings ; body, orange or yellow silk, tinged with the 

 mole or water-rat ; with a few orange and black fibres 

 of mohair at the breast ; or hen hackle for legs. 



53RD. MEALY BROWN BEETLE. Full length, bet- 

 ter than half an inch ; top wings, a grey mealy brown, 

 with very little transparency ; under wings, fine and 

 clouded light and dark bio ; body, thighs, neck, chin, 

 and feelers, a rich deep orange ; centre of the belly 

 and remaining parts, a dusky brown ; eyes, black. 

 Are numerous among the grass, in the fields, by the 

 Ure side, the middle of this -month numbers were 

 seen in the pasture opposite " Skittergate." 



Wings, from the grey brown feather from a mallard's 

 wing; orange silk for body, tinged with water-rat; 

 legged with a yellow brown hen hackle, with a yellow 

 stripe down the middle. 



54iH. BROWN BEETLE. Full length, about three- 

 eighths ; length, near the same ; top wings shiny, and 

 of a darkish bronze or red brown, and dim amber 

 transparency ; head, shoulders, body, and legs, black ; 

 legs notched ; with a thin hair upon them, and on the 

 other parts ; under- wings, tinged at the shoulders with 

 amber, which shade into a leady bio to the ends. 

 They have two black feelers, with a tuft at the ends. 

 Are very numerous, flying about in the day-time among 

 the grass and on the hedges, from the middle of this 

 month through June. 



Wings from a red brown hen, of ambry transpa- 



