. Australian insects. Insects. XKL'lidl'TKI.'A. G3 Tliis Genus was fOUsidoi-cMl peculiar to Australia, until in tlu^ last few rears two species have beeu (les( ribed from Afri(\a and a third from Burmah. The curious black mottled laee-wino-, Porismus strigafits, has a narrow red head furnished with lone rounded eyes; the front portion of the thorax forms a rejiular neck. The narrow elonj^ate black wings, blotched and ti])ped with pale yellow shading into white, are folded over the back forming a ridge when at rest on a tree trunk. They are sometimes met with about Sydnev, and are Fig- 36-—I-'a
. Australian insects. Insects. XKL'lidl'TKI.'A. G3 Tliis Genus was fOUsidoi-cMl peculiar to Australia, until in tlu^ last few rears two species have beeu (les( ribed from Afri(\a and a third from Burmah. The curious black mottled laee-wino-, Porismus strigafits, has a narrow red head furnished with lone rounded eyes; the front portion of the thorax forms a rejiular neck. The narrow elonj^ate black wings, blotched and ti])ped with pale yellow shading into white, are folded over the back forming a ridge when at rest on a tree trunk. They are sometimes met with about Sydnev, and are Fig- 36-—I-'aiva of Foiismus strii/- atus (Boheiii). The achilf Lace- wing is shown in Plate VI., Fiif. 7. (Original ). common in New p]ngland toward the end of sunnner. I found larvae and eggs under logs in that district which I believe to be those of this insect; the former were stalked and deposited in a narrow semicircle attached to each other; the larvae, of the usual tick-shaped form, covered themselves over with bits of burnt ashes, and clung to the surface of the log, where they easily escaped notice with their protective covering. The Genus Osmylus contains a number of slender insects with longer, semitransparent, spotted, brown wings, and fine antennae clothed with short hairs. The larvae, active little. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Froggatt, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1858-; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS; Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. Sydney, W. Brooks
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