68 LIST OP FLIES. 



ders and each joint down the back, and black spots 

 along each side. Feelers, three-eighths, which, with 

 the legs, are a red brown dim transparency. There is 

 also a light freckled brown moth, of the [size of the 

 spotted, but more downy, and of the tawny hue. There 

 are other moths out at night, in the summer part of 

 the season, of the dark brown freckle of the nightjar; 

 but the light colored flies are best taken. There is a 

 small long snouted (three-eighths) silvery moth makes 

 itself very conspicuous, from its numbers, from eight 

 to ten on fine evenings, through July ; and sometimes 

 rouses the smaller fish. It often occurs, in both moths 

 and flies, that there are two or three different sizes, all 

 of the same colors like the freckled, little freckled, 

 and least freckled duns, etc., etc. 



77xH. RED ANT FLY. Full length, three-eighths 

 to half an inch ; length, a quarter to three-eighths ; 

 wings, the same, which are veined, and of a brown 

 tinge ; they fold flat one upon the other over the back, 

 and reach beyond the body. Shoulders and body, 

 thick ; waist, small, which, with the head, are all of a 

 dark red brown color ; legs and feelers, the same ; 

 when held up to the light, shew thick amber and red 

 transparencies. Are altogether glossy and smooth, 

 but a fine short hair may be seen, through a glass, on 

 the parts which, in the sun, throw off short gilded re- 

 flections. They are well taken by the fishes whenever 

 they come upon the waters. This species have but one 

 pair of wings. 



The shoulders and body are usually formed with a 

 small strand of a peacock's feather, with small red or 



