64 LIST OF FLIES. 
half the length ; body and upper parts touched with brown; 
belly, of some, bare, and of a yellow bees’-wax hue, ending 
in a blunt point; the feelers are short, and of an amber 
hue ; eyes, dark or black. 
Slips for wings may be found in the white or broken 
feathers of the yellow or screech owl; body, etc., light 
tawny colored woollen thread, legged with a tawny hen 
hackle. 
The white dun, or “ bustard” of the craft, is classed with 
the duns, being nearly of the same construction, but is con- 
sidered a land fly. They appear about the middle of this 
month, and continue until near the end of July. They are 
found flying about in meadows and long grass, from half- 
past nine to half-past ten at night, when they are taken by 
the craft and fished natural, with great success, for large 
trout take them greedily in streams where the stone fly 
does not come or is on the decline. These large flies are 
generally fished natural, which is termed “ dibbing” or 
“dabbing.” The stone fly, green and grey drakes, and 
white bustard, are the chief, being all good to get. There 
is the brown bustard and spotted moth, both night flies, 
but do not shew themselves in numbers like the others. 
They come out about half-past nine every fine night, and 
continue into August. The brown bustard is similar in size 
and shape to the white—top wings shades of brown, with 
zig-zag lines and marble streaks ; the other parts red brown, 
about the shade of the tawny parts of hare’s fur. The 
spotted moth: length five-eighths ; wings three-quarters, 
which it erects like a butterfly, or lays them flat like a 
moth ; they are of a yellow white ground, spotted with a 
rich dark brown, touched at the shoulders and across the 
broad parts with yellow. Under-wings, no yellow and less 
spotted ; body and shoulders smooth fleshy and yellow, 
with a black spot on the top of the shoulders and each joint 
down the back, and black spots along each side. Feelers 
