FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. IOj 



be obtained, nor could a figure be found showing the fly in another, and perhaps 

 more familiar, position, with wings cocked up and the long slender abdomen, ringed 

 as may be seen in the figure, turning upwards and ending in 

 two or three delicate stylets. Some species have two and 

 some three stylets. The net-veined wings may also be 

 seen in the figure. 



The May-fly, day-fly, sand-fly, shad-fly, are some of 

 the names given to the ephemera which are known to fish- 

 ermen as the drakes — green, gray, yellow, brown, black, 

 amber, iron-blue, etc. The largest and, perhaps, the best 

 known of the May-flies is the Green drake, and the March 

 brown is also a favorite with the angler. 



Professor L. C. Miall, F. R. S., in a recent work upon the Natural History of 

 Aquatic Insects, published by Macmillan & Co., has grouped certain aquatic insects 

 with the names employed by anglers to describe flies in the group. 



1. Diptera (Two-winged flies). Golden Dun Midge. 



2. Trichoptera (Caddis-flies). (This group is approximately the same as Phry- 

 ganidae, mentioned by Lanman and Prof. Lintner.) Blue Dun, Little Red Spinner, 

 Sand-fly, Grannom, Turkey Brown, Dark Spinner, Silver Horns, Cinnamon-fly. 



3. Sialidae (Alder flies). Alder or Orl-fly. 



4. Perlidag (Stone-flies). Red-fly (Old Joan), Stone-fly, Willow-fly (Shamrock-fly). 



5. Ephemeridas (May-flies). March Brown (Dun or Brown Drake), Great Red 

 Spinner, Yellow Dun, Iron Blue Dun, Jenny Spinner, Little Yellow May Dun, 

 Sky Blue, Green Drake (May-fly), Gray Drake, Orange Dun, Black Drake, Dark 

 Mackerel, Pale Evening Dun, Whirling Blue Dun, July Dun, August Dun. 



The method adopted by Michael Theakston, an English fisherman, of classifying 

 the insects chiefly copied by the artificial fly dresser, has always seemed to me more 

 popular for fishermen to follow. He divides the insects that are most imitated in 

 feathers, silk and tinsel into seven classes : Browns, Drakes, Duns, Spinners, House- 

 flies, Beetles and Ants. Perlidae are the Browns, Needle Brown, Orange Brown, 

 Stone-fly, etc. 



Ephemeridas are the Drakes — May-fly or Green Drakes and all the other drakes. 



Trichoptera are the Duns, the various Caddis-flies, which, by the way, should not 

 be confounded with the May-flies, as they are quite different, although the Century 

 Dictionary says the May-fly is the Caddis. 



Diptera are the Spinners, Black Hackle, Early Spinners, Jenny Spinners, etc. 



House-flies, Beetles and Ants tell their own story, and include the flies known as 

 Blue Bottle, Cow Dung, Gnats, Red Ant, Black Ant, etc. 



