5 THE CLASSES. 
form of the carcase of the fly [see Creeper]. Their bodies 
are smooth and fleshy, consisting of eight or nine joints, or 
rings, and is about the length of the head and shoulders. 
At the breast of each shoulder there is a pair of legs, and 
they have two pairs of smooth oblong wings, which, when 
folded, circle close over and beyond the body in a round 
cylindrical form, giving most of the species the appearance 
of a short piece of wire. The top wings shew veiny, and 
stand on the middle shoulder ; the under wings stand on 
the shoulder which joins the body. They have two feelers 
at the head, and most of them two whisks at the tail. 
Their most prevailing color is brown, from which they are 
named, on a yellow or orange ground ; and are very quick 
runners both on land and water. A1l the class are day flies, 
except the stone fly, which sometimes steal out in the gloom 
of dark days, but generally in the dusk and twilight of 
night. They are the earliest and latest angling flies ; most 
of the species hatch in the spring, but some are on the 
water nearly the seasons round. Some species, like the 
stone fly, hatch the main swarm in two or three weeks, and 
their generation disappear for the year; others, like the 
needle brown, continue hatching and breeding through the 
season. The streams of Ripon produce them in great num- 
bers, and all fish that take flies feed off them greedily— 
for trout they may be considered the leading class. The 
following species are in the class: 
Needle Brown ‘ . Page 11 
Early Brown (or Winter Brow) ‘ 13 
Little Harly . ‘ ‘ A ‘i a 13 
Red Brown . : : - és is 15 
Royal Charlie 5 : . . . 20 
Light Brown . 3 2 F 5 23 
Mottled Brown. ‘ ? ‘. a 25 
Stone Fly . . ; : ‘ i 28 
Bloa Brown . : - * 36 
Yellow Brown (Yellow Sally : 5 43 
Orange Brown 2 . 3 70 
