86 LIST OF FLIES. 
Spinner, blue spinner or gnat, late black spinner or gnat.— 
Out, and most numerous towards evening. 
Bank fly, house fly, lion fly, blue bottle, bronze beetle, golden- 
legged beetle. Out all fine days. 
Red ant fly. Full length, near half an inch ; length, near 
three-eighths, one pair of wings strongly veined half way 
up, and the lower half of thick brown transparency, the 
upper half more clear. Shoulders about the same thick- 
ness as the body, red brown color. Taken in the evening 
off Bondgate Bridge, Ripon. 
FIFTEENTH TO TWENTIETH. 
Orange brown, needle brown.—Out and hatching. 
Checkwing. Hatching in best perfection. Length, half 
an inch ; wings, half an inch and a sixteenth, squared, and 
of light ambry brown ; body, dim orange or amber, touched 
darker on the back, etc., with slanting dark lines on the 
sides. 
Red drake (checkwing ).—Length, half an inch ; wings, 
half an inch and a sixteenth, of the ambry hue, with slant- 
ing dark lines on the sides. 
Dark drake (watchet)—Hatching. (A leader with the 
craft). 
Red drake (from the watchet ),—Length, three-eighths ; 
long fore-legs ; out in the daytime and evenings. 
Blue drake.—From a quarter to three-eighths, of the brown 
tinge. Outand hatching. Numbers of empty creeper skins 
by the water edges. 
Little red drake.—Length a quarter, some more ; long fore 
legs. Out in the daytime and evenings. 
Little dark drake.—Hatching, and out numerous in the 
daytime. 
Iron blue drake.—Hatching daily. 
Pearl drake.—Out daily. 
Light dnn.—Half an inch to five-eighths. Hatching in 
the daytime, and out in numbers in the evening, 
