68 LIST OF FLIES. 
or black silk, well waxed, for body, etc. ; with a few fibres 
of dark red mohair at the breast for legs. 
The black ant selects for her dwelling the roots of large 
oak or other trees, that are decayed, or have openings suf- 
ficient to admit them ; she is constantly busy, and has her 
time of swarming, like the red ant. There is a community 
of them within the roots of a large oak tree, that stands 
close to the stile by the footpath near Masterman’s cottage, 
going to Whitcliffe. Some may be seen with wings, the 
beginning of next month ; they are tender and susceptible 
of cold, only coming out freely on warm soft days, and 
most towards evening. 
Norte For JUNE.—This radiant remnant of the spring 
consigns her vast handiworks to summer, and mazy multi- 
tudes of insects are on the wing both day and night. The 
rising sun rouses the day tribes, and its setting rays rise 
those of the night. The Empress and fairy queen enter the 
month in full force: the Empress, with her nocturnal allies, 
revel through the short twilight of night, which is as fish- 
able as the day. The amber drake, with all her kindred of 
red drakes ; the red dun, with all her nightly trains of duns, 
throng the waters, and are taken by the fishes, through the 
shades of night ; but the princely trout prefers the Imperial 
fly. The fairy queen, with the day tribes—the browns, 
drakes, and duns, spinners, house flies, and beetles, revel 
their rounds through the lengthy light warm day, but when 
the Queen appears in sunny spendour she eclipses all, and 
foils the craftsman’s mimic art; and, be it remembered, 
that foul days for the Queen are fine days for the Empress. 
The vast variety of flies—their various times of hatching, 
and appearance on the water—with the varying tastes of 
the fish—render variety the order of the day, extending 
through the night. On seasonable days, in the morning 
part, when flies are thin on the water, the black gnat, needle 
