8+ LIST OF FLIES. 
SEPTEMBER FOURTH. 
Orange brown, needle brown, dark drake, light drake (length 
a quarter ), iron blue drake, little dark drake (quarter or better ), 
checkuing, coral-eyed drake,—All out and hatching in the 
daytime. Numbers may be seen, in fine weather, in spiders’ 
webs, The drakes cast their skins, and are most numerous 
about the waters a little before and after sunset. The 
checkwing is the finest ; and the red drake nearly equal to 
the amber. 
Blue drake.—Some near the size of the spring flies, but 
of browner shades, hatching in good numbers; one cast its 
skin and became the orange drake. Took one off a spider's 
web, length near three-eighths ; wings three-eighths and a 
sixteenth, crossed into squares with fine lines, which alone 
made them visible ; eyes like two light pear] pellets. Top 
of shoulders red; lighter down the back, and growing 
lighter to the belly; legs a pale dim amber; whisks an 
inch, and spotted. (Suppose the pearl-colored eyes not 
natural). 
Little brown dwn.—Wheeling over the water in small 
groups, at six p.m. 
Feted dun, Saw one similar, out in the day time. 
Light dun.—Full length, half an inch and a sixteenth ; 
yellow brown freckled wings ; body, legs, and feelers, amber. 
Hatching and out, numerous, at 9 a.m. 
Red dun.—Hatching daily, and out in the evenings. 
Spinners.—Out numerous, and in best perfection. 
Blue spinner or gnat.—Hatching, and out very numerous 
towards evening, flying and wheeling just over the water, 
like the black gnats in May and June. 
House fly, cowdung or lion fly, bank fly.—Out from morn- 
ing till night. 
Golden-legged beetle, bronze beetle.—Out in the daytime. 
Red ant fly.—-On the water. Two pair of light fine trans- 
parent wings, of a bright brown tinge ; shoulders and body 
