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AUGUST FIKST. 



Checkwing. Rather larger and lighter in shades than 

 the spring description. Wings distinctly crossed and 

 tinged to the shoulders with dull pale yellow ; head, 

 top of shoulders, and down the back, light yellow 

 green or pale brown olive ; a -dark line on the lower 

 edge of each joint of the body, crosses the back and 

 slants on the side to the next joint. Throat, breast, belly, 

 and legs, a greenish yellow ; eyes, dark. Is a thick, 

 fleshy, fine fly ; one cast its skin in the flybox, which 

 changed it to the red drake. Length, near half an inch ; 

 wings, clear, squared, and sparkling, with red and am- 

 ber towards the shoulders. Legs, head, shoulders, and 

 body, light red or ambry foundation, touched on the 

 upper parts with dark red or brown, shewing the slant- 

 ing lines on the sides. 



Blue drake. Not so large as the spring flies. Length, 

 a quarter and near a sixteenth. Wings, fine, and of 

 the blue dun tinge ; top of head, shoulders, and body, 

 dark ashy hue ; joints edged with lighter ; belly and 

 breast a blue dun tinge ; legs, a pale ale transparency, 

 darkest to the feet. Taken from under a large leaf, 

 that grows by the water sides, where many of the 

 aquatic flies take rest after hatching. The blue drake, 

 which hatches in cold weather, appears to cast off three 



