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tated by making its wings of a small quan- 

 tity of landrail wing feather, and its body of 

 mottled hairs ; for a bright day, its wings 

 may be made of the wing feather of a jepie, 

 and its body of light mottled hairs, tied on 

 with yellow silk thread. 



No. 4. This fly appears in May ; it is 

 small at first, but grows to about three- 

 quarters of an inch in length ; it has no 

 prongs, and its wings lie close to its body. 

 It comes out at the same time, passes 

 through the same forms, and is nearly the 

 same colour as the cloth moth, and may not 

 improperly be called an amphibious moth. 

 It spawns by reeling about upon the top of 

 a tree that overhangs the water, and the ova 

 is carried down the stream until it reaches 

 the shallows, where it rests among the moss 

 on the stones. It appears first as a small 

 grub, feeds on the moss for a few months, 

 then goes into chrysalis, and comes out in 

 May in its moth form. The empty chrysalis 

 cases are sometimes met with, clustered 

 together like a honey-comb, among the 

 stones. This fly may be imitated by form- 

 ing its wings of the wing feather of the 



