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Sub-Fam. 6. Ohrysopides, Lacewing-flies.- — Fragile Insects ivith 

 elongate, setaceous antennae. 



The lace\Ying-f]ies — also called stink-flies and golden-eyes — are 

 excessively delicate Insects, of which we possess about 1 5 species 

 in Britain. Their 

 antennae are more 

 slender and less dis- 

 tinctly jointed than 

 they are in Hemero- 

 biides, and the Ohry- 

 sopides are more 

 elongate Insects. The 

 pecnhar metallic 

 colour of their eyes 

 is frequently very 

 conspicuous, the eyes 



I 1 . •11 • (• Fia. 313. — Ohrysopa flam. Cambridge. 



looking, indeed, as 11 j 1 j 



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



Fig. 314. — Eggs of Ohrysopa. A, Five 

 eggs on a leaf; B, one egg, more 

 magnified. (After Schneider.) 



Fig. 815. — Larva of Chrysopa sp. Cambridge. 

 A, Tiie Insect magniiied ; B, foot more 

 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 



