The eggs are not stalked but are attached to the food plant; the young elongated larva, furnished with stout projecting jaws, crawls upon the foliage and feeds upon aphids. This Genus was considered peculiar to Australia, until in the last few years two species have been described from Africa and a third from Burmah. The curious black mottled lace-wing, _Porismus strigatus_, has a narrow red head furnished with long slender antennae and large rounded eyes; the front portion of the thorax forms a regular neck. The narrow elongate black wings, blotched and tipped 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 Sydney, and are common in New England toward the end of summer. 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. [Illustration: =Fig. 36.=--Larva of _Porismus strigatus_ (Bohem). The adult Lace-wing is shown in Plate VI., Fig. 7. (Original W.W.F.)] 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 creatures, feed about among the leaves destroying aphids. _Osmylus tenui_ measures about 1¼ inches across the outspread wings, is of the usual dull brown tint, and is found in Victoria. In the Genus _Drepanopteryx_ the fore wings are short, broad, rounded in front at the shoulders, and arcuate on the hind margin; the hind pair are rounded, semitransparent, with a darker costal margin; when resting upon a twig they tuck the head down under the thorax, and turn the wings upward, almost standing on their heads; they could be easily passed over from their resemblance to a brown leaf. _Drepanopteryx binocula_ and _D. instabilis_ are found in N.S. Wales and Victoria; the first has dark fore wings and measures about ¾ of an inch; the second is somewhat smaller and lighter coloured. [Illustration: Fig. 37. Fig. 38. =Figs. 37 and 38.=--Life History of the Brown Lace-wing. 37.--_Micromus Australis_ (Froggatt). 38.--Larva. (“Agricultural Gazette,” N.S.W.)]