102 LIST OF FLIES. 



numbers, with the ear wigs. 



Red dun. Out on fine evenings. 



TENTH. 



All the same Flies as on the First. 



TWENTIETH. 



Needle brown. On fine days in full numbers and 

 best perfection. Hatching, copulating, and laying their 

 eggs on the water. 



Light, dark, and little dark drakes. Continue to 

 hatch, more or less, as the weather and water permit. 



Red and little red drakes. Out on fine days, but 

 less in numbers. 



Freckled and light duns. Out on fine days and warm 

 evenings, but not numerous. 



Red dun. Out on fine evenings. 



House and lion flies, and bronze beetle. Out in good 

 numbers, on fine days, to the end. 



Ear wigs. Out numerous at the back-end and close 

 of the season, when many fall on the waters, and are 

 taken by grayling and smelt. They vary from a quar- 

 ter to half an inch in length. Some are red, others 

 jet black, and are glossy. The short flappers of some 

 are edged with amber, and, in the sun, throw off short 

 gilded reflections, from a thin fine down. The three- 

 eighths black are probably the most numerous. The 

 black silver and golden hackle will imitate these insects 

 if drest to shape and size. 



NOTE. The dark drakes bear cold days like the 

 blue drake in the spring. According to observations of 



