50 SEDGE VLlESTRIC&OPTEjRA. 



Fig. 62 is a very beautiful insect, and very plentiful 

 at times. It is of a rich cinnamon colour when first 

 hatched, but after a few hours the colour fades to 

 a dull brown. 



However, its imitation with wings from a sheldrake, 

 jay, or other cinnamon feather does little better than 

 one dressed with the more sober coloured feather of 

 the French partridge or bittern. 



Fig. 63 is a useful pattern for two reasons First, it 

 is a common insect ; and secondly, it is very like another 

 common insect, which gets on the water in great 

 quantities at times, namely, the small grass moth, 

 which is so plentiful in meadows when the grass is 

 getting long and for several weeks after. 



Fig. 64 is another of the very elegant species 

 (limnophilus lunatus), and not one of the most 

 numerous, but taken with avidity when it does hatch 

 out. 



Fig. 65 is the Silverhorn, which is typical of half 

 a dozen species ; it may be seen in clouds at times, 

 hovering busily over the water, and is quite worthy of 

 the angler's attention. 



One curious feature of the sedges is that the 

 bodies of the males and females in several species are 

 almost complementary in colour, the male reddish 

 brown and the female green, or vice versa, and with 

 different localities we also observe a considerable 

 difference in the depth of the colour of both wings and 

 bodies. 



