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three-eighths, which, with the legs, are a red brown dim 
transparency. There is also a light freckled brown moth, 
of the size of the spotted, but more downy, and of the tawny 
hue. There are other moths out at night in the summer 
part of the season, of the dark brown freckle of the night- 
jar, but the light colored flies are best tuken. There is a 
small long-snouted (three-eighths) silvery moth makes itself 
very conspicuous, from its numbers, from eight to ten on 
fine evenings through July ; and sometimes rouses the 
smaller fish. It often occurs, in both moths and flies, that 
there are two or three different sizes, all of the same colors 
—like the freckled, little freckled, and least freckled duns, 
etc., ete. 
77TH.—RED ANT Fiy.“—Full length, three-eighths to 
half an inch ; length, a quarter to three-eighths ; wings the 
same, which are veined, and of a brown tinge; they fold 
flat one upon the other over the back, and reach beyond 
the body. Shoulders and body thick ; waist small, which, 
with the head, are all of a dark red brown color, legs and 
feelers the same; when held up to the light, shew thick 
amber and red transparencies. Are altogether glossy and 
smooth, but a fine short hair may be seen, through a glass, 
on the parts which, in the sun, throw off short gilded reflec- 
tions. They are well taken by the fish whenever they 
come upon the waters. This species have but one pair of 
wings. 
The shoulders and body are usually formed with a small 
strand of a peacock’s feather, with small red or amber silk, 
with a few fibres of red brown mohair wrought in at the 
(42) This is a favourite fly of mine during July, August, and September ; in the 
latter month grayling take it readily, and I seldom fish without having one on my 
cast. In Derbyshire the local anglers use the ant’s egg as a bottom bait, I am told, 
with considerable success, but I have never seen it used upon any of the Yorkshire 
rivers, and have never tried it myself. Mr. Ronalds remarks, ‘‘The ant eggs used 
as a bottom bait after a fresh, are, in fact, cocoons, inclosing the insects in a pupa 
state,” 
