94 LIST OP FLIES. 



Little red drake. Out numerous, many on spider webs. 



Little brown dun. Out. Full length, about three- 

 eighths. Brown, downy, fringed wings, with marks of 

 lighter shade ; body, leady, and thickish in the middle; 

 legs, light. 



Freckled dun. Hatching, and out in the day time. 

 Full length, five-eighths ; length, three-eighths. Top 

 wings, freckled with dark brown and fawn color ; un- 

 der- wings, broad, and of a uniform blue bio tinge ; 

 body, fleshy and cylindrical, which, with the thighs, is 

 of a leady hue, with the light side lines ; legs, lighter. 

 When held to the light, is of a red brown tinge, show- 

 ing the dark freckle on the wings. 



Light dun. Full length, three-quarters ; length, 

 half an inch; feelers, half an inch. Eyes, black; all 

 the other parts of a light ambry bees'-wax hue ; top 

 wings slightly broken with faint marks and freckles. 

 When held to the light, of a dim ambry tinge, shewing 

 the freckle on the top, and plainness of the under- wings. 



This fly was hatched in a water-pot, on the 26th in- 

 stant, from a cod-bait creeper, which was put in the 

 pot in May ; water six or seven inches deep. It soon 

 fixed itself to the side of the pot, near the bottom. 

 Fresh water was put in night and morning, or rather 

 oftener at first ; and a gauze cover over the pot. When 

 hatched, was found on the under side of the gauze 

 cover, alive and perfect the creeper skin on the sur- 

 face of the water, and the empty artificial case attached 

 to the pot where it first fixed. 



Red dun. Hatching, and out in the evenings and 



after dark. Full length, an inch ; wings, seven-eighths. 



Gravel spinner. Found several flies on the under- 



