70 LIST OF FLIES. 



78iH. WHITE LEGGED DUN. Full length, about 

 three-eighths ; feelers, three -eighths, rankly marked 

 light and dark ; wings, a dark brown dun or choc- 

 olate hue, with light reddish touches ; eyes, shoul- 

 ders, and body, dark brown dun, almost black ; part of 

 thighs, legs, and feet, a dull white. When looked 

 through to the light, is of a dark dun bio hue, except 

 the legs, which show light. They are hatching this 

 month, and may be seen through the next and into 

 autumn, flying about the waters, at seven p.m. 



Wings from a dark broken feather from the moor- 

 cock or snipe ; slaty ashy silk for body ; and a light 

 gingery hackle, with a black stripe down the middle, 

 for legs. 



79TH. DOTTEREL DuN.-^-Full length, five-eighths; 

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

 breast, shoulders, thighs, legs, and feelers, a dim honey 

 dun tinge, or the hue of the tawny part of hare's fur ; 

 body the same, but tinged leady ; wings not downy, 

 and narrow, close more cylindrical, like the browns ; 

 and answering in shade to the outside of a dotterel's 

 wing ; eyes, dark or black. Hatches early this month, 

 and may be seen wheeling to and fro over the water on 

 fine evenings, at six p.m., through July. 



Body, etc., copper-colored silk, slightly tinged with 

 water-rat's fur ; winged and legged with a dotterel's 

 feather ; or winged with slips and a few fibres of mo- 

 hair or hare's ear, wrought in at the breast. 



80TH. BLACK ANT FLY. Full length, about three- 

 eighths and one-sixteenth ; length, near a quarter ; has 



