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The bunch of eggs which the female 

 carries at the tail is best represented by 

 winding on some bluish-green floss silk 

 or wool at the end of the body, which 

 should be carried well down on the bend 

 of the hook, as shown in the illustration 

 of the imitation fly. 



Body. Light coloured fur from hare's 

 face, with green floss silk or wool at the 

 tail. If ribbed with narrow gold tinsel is 

 sometimes more successful. 



Haclde. Light ginger, or, better still, a 

 hackle dark in the centre and light ginger 

 at the ends. 



Wings. The lightest-coloured feathers 

 from a partridge's wings. 



Hook. No. 1 3, new size. 



(Plates I. and III. give illustrations of 

 the natural and artificial Grannom.) 



THE SAND FLY (Limnephilus flavus, Steph.). 



Mr. Halford points out in his Dry- Fly 

 Entomology ', that Ronalds was mistaken in 

 calling this fly the Sand-fly, as the true 

 sand-fly is one of the Diptera. I take it, 

 however, that in either case this is but a 

 popular name ; and as almost all former 



