TYPICAL INSECTS OF JULY 



very rainy days, this insect is fairly plentiful in the 

 daytime. Its body is quite fleshy, and though en- 

 cumbered with thick, hairy legs of snowy white- 

 ness, it often dips on the surface and seems to be 

 able to recover and rise again in flight with ap- 

 parent ease. Though I have never seen it float any 

 distance, its attitude while on the surface for a 

 short time, with wings close together, is quite sim- 

 ilar to the drakes. Under a magnifying glass it 

 is a marvelously beautiful insect, with golden fern- 

 like horns, and big green eyes embedded in the 

 whitest silken floss. 



The white miller, as made, is absurd. No won- 

 der one never gets a rise on a fly of that sort. 



No. 11. Tiger beetle. This black and yeUow 

 beetle I caught in various sizes, with deep yellow 

 and brown body and legs. The one pictured is 

 deep blue-black all over, with markings in bright 

 lemon yellow, except that the end sections of all 

 legs are bright brown. 



The big spinner, so plentiful in Jime, were all 

 gone, and were replaced with many varieties of 

 small ones. Some, indeed, were exactly like June 

 spinners, only considerably smaller in size. They 

 were mixing freely with the rise of small duns oi 

 drakes, or both. 



No. 12. 'Plume spinner. This little spinner is 

 very abundant, taking the place in trout diet of the 



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