28 LIST OF FLIES. 
23RD.—TuE SPINNER.—Length, half an inch or better, 
of which the body is three-eighths ; wings, five-eighths, 
clear and tinged brown, with a scroll of dark and light near 
the ends; top of shoulders and body brown ; a round spot 
of lighter shade on the top of each joint, running down the 
back, which is flanked on each side by one of darker. 
Sides of shoulders and breast mingled light and dark brown, 
lead, ash, and azure; thighs, a dim brown transparency, 
darkening down the legs, which are very long. There is a 
smaller species nearly the same colors ; numerous on fogs and 
grass in September and October. 
Body, light brown or fawn colored silk, or even woollen 
thread, tinged with a mixture of ash, blue, and azure fur 
at the shoulders, on a pale yellow bottom. Wings from a 
feather out of a partridge or hen pheasant’s wing ; legs, a 
black brown cock’s hackle. 
The spinners are often numerous on the banks of the 
streams at this part of the season; in the warm months 
they are larger in size and more brilliant in colors; when 
their length and wings is five-eighths or better; and the 
hind legs of some two inches; top of shoulders and body 
a brown ash or reflective fawn color, in some lighter at the 
joints, others uniform ; the sides of shoulders are a rich 
light blue and azure, touched with ash, upon a pale yellow 
bottom—which shew, with the thighs, a rich dim trans- 
parency, of a light amber shade, darkening down the legs. 
The wings a fine rufous brown tinge and transparency, with 
dark veins. In autumn they are exceedingly numerous, 
and appear to breed on land and in the water, for they are 
very often rank by the water sides and also in grass fields, 
particularly in low swampy parts. They are good natural 
baits in summer and autumn. 
24TH.—THE STONE FLy.'"\—The full length of a fine 
(16) The imitation of this, the largest of aquatic insects, is of little practical 
use to the angler, excepting in rough water on a windy day, but I do not know finer 
