Body, wings and hook as No. 2.
Hackle. Cock’s badger hackle.
(Illustrated, [Plate II].)
Curse No. 4 (Red):—
Body. Peacock quill dyed to a crimson lake colour.
Hackle. Black.
Wings and hook as No. 1.
Nos. 2 and 3 should be made also without the fluff being stripped off the quill, which in this case should be used just as peacock herle is used.
The Oak-fly (Leptis scolopacea, Linn.).
This fly, notwithstanding its popular name, is found on many other trees, and I have seen it in places where there were no oak-trees near. It kills very well, and is in season from April to July. The body is long and tapered, and the segments of the abdomen are, in the male, of a brilliant orange colour, with black markings upon them, as shown in the illustration of the natural fly on [Plate I]. The wings are brown.