108 ON CREEPERS. 



which, with the legs, sides, etc., are fringed with hair. 

 Ground color, a lightish green, shewing, in the dim 

 transparency, the dark marks of the fly within. Shape 

 similar to the body and parts of the fly, but bulkier. 

 A fine small line is visible betwixt the shoulders, where 

 the creeper skin splits open at hatching ; the same may 

 be seen on the shoulders of the protective skin of the 

 fly. They are generally in deeper water, and hatch on 

 the surface. 



5TH. BROWN DRAKE CREEPER. Length, half an 

 inch. Legs, whisks, feelers, and sides, fringed with 

 fine hair, which flows and moves in the water. Is a 

 broad and thick creeper, wi|h largish head, altogether 

 of a light ambry brown ground ; touched and marked 

 on the upper-parts with darker. The check wing creeper 

 is nearly similar. Both shew the slanting dark lines on 

 the sides, and hatch on the top of the water. 



GTH. CORAL EYED DRAKE CREEPER. Length, 

 about three-eighths ; whisks, a quarter. Legs, whisks, 

 feelers, and body, fringed with fine hair, and of a dull 

 dim amber transparency ; eyes, a deep red brown ; 

 wings shew through their thin creeper skins like an ob- 

 long black mark on each side of the shoulders. Hatch 

 on the top of the water. Like the browns, the creepers 

 of this class are readily taken by the fishes, but pre- 

 serve themselves in the same way. 



CREEPERS OF THE DUNS, OR CASED CREEPERS. 

 NATURE has changed her operations in perfecting 



