HEMEROBIIDAE 



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Sub-Fam. 6. Chrysopides, Lacewing-flies. Fragile Insects with 

 elongate, setaceous antennae. 



The lacewing-flies also called stink-flies and golden-eyes are 

 excessively delicate Insects, of which we possess about 15 species 

 in Britain. Their 

 antennae are more 

 slender and less dis- 

 tinctly jointed than 

 they are in Hemero- 

 biides, and the Chry- 

 sopides are more 

 elongate Insects. The 

 peculiar metallic 

 colour of their eyes 

 is frequently very 

 conspicuous, the eyes 

 looking, indeed, as if FlG " ""*-*. Cambridge, 



they were composed of shining metal ; this fades very much after 



FIG. 314. Eggs of Chrysopa. A, Five FIG. 315. Larva of Chrysopa sp. Cambridge, 

 eggs oil a leaf ; B, one egg, more A, The Insect magnified ; B, foot more 



magnified. (After Schneider.) magnified ; C, terminal apparatus of the 



claws, highly magnified. 



death. Although not very frequently noticed, the Chrysopides 

 are really common Insects, and are of considerable importance 



