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dun tribes. She hatches during this month and again in 
autumn, when they are very numerous; but like the stone 
fly, she is seldom seen out in the daytime, but creeps into 
the cracks and crevices of soil banks, overhanging sods, 
etc., where she may be found by beating them ; in the dusk 
of evening they come out and sport on the wing, probably 
through the night. She is a fine fleshy fly, but not much 
noticed by the craft. 
52ND. —RED BEETLE.—Full length about half an inch ; 
length the same ; wings near three-eighths, of a red-brown 
tinge and amber transparency ; legs, back, belly, and breast, 
dark or black; head, shoulders, sides, and thighs, red as a 
boiled lobster ; eyes black ; feet and feelers notched—feelers 
black at the ends; under wings veined and shaded with 
light and dark bloa. Comes early this month, and con- 
tinues through the next. 
Amber feather from the cock-pheasant’s breast, for wings; 
body, orange or yellow silk, tinged with the mole or water- 
rat ; with a few orange and black fibres of mohair at the 
breast ; or hen hackle for legs. 
53RD.—MEALY Brown BeEETLE.—Full length, better 
than half an inch; top wings a grey mealy brown, with 
very little transparency ; under wings fine and clouded light 
and dark bloa; body, thighs, neck, chin, and feelers, a rich 
deep orange; centre of the belly and remaining parts, a 
dusky brown ; eyes black. Are numerous among the grass, 
in the fields, by the Ure side, the middle of this month— 
numbers were seen in the pasture opposite “ Skittergate.” 
Wings, from the grey brown feather from a mallard’s 
wing ; orange silk for body, tinged with water-rat ; legged 
with a yellow brown hen hackle, with a yellow stripe down 
the middle. 
54TH.—Brown BeEETLeE.—Full length, about three- 
