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the Ohio River. It extends as far north as Marion and Putnam 

 counties, where it is found sparingly, though a dozen or more 

 specimens have been brought to me in Indianapolis, all of them 

 females. S. G. Evans, of Evausville, in a letter says : "The Man- 

 tids are found here of all sizes and colors, the eggs and young 

 being almost as common as mosquitoes. I have, on several occa- 

 sions, placed male and female together in a glass jar, and the 

 female always devoured the male, and generally while in the act 

 of copulating, the bodies remaining together until the male was 

 almost consumed." At Indianapolis the females evidently reach 

 maturity about September 1st, most specimens being brought in 

 about that date or later ; the green and brown forms of the female 

 being about equally numerous. In Putnam County it has been 

 noted by John S. Michaels, near Bainbridge. A pair, both of the 

 dark hue, were found mating in Perry Co., Sept. 25. They were 

 on the stem of a weed within a foot of the ground and the ab- 

 domen of the female was greatly distended by the large mass of 

 eggs enclosed. 



8. Carolina occurs throughout Florida, having been recorded 

 from numerous localities from Jacksonville, Live Oak and Pen- 

 sacola south to Homestead and Key West, the dates ranging 

 throughout the year. Nymphs have been taken by me at Okee- 

 chobee City, Cape Sable and Key West in February and March. 

 A female from Punta Gorda is recorded by R. & H. (1914d) as 

 "having the body 75 mm. and the pronotum 27. 5 mm., in length." 

 In Florida this mantis is usually found in the undergrowth of 

 pine woods, palmetto scrub, etc., though it is liable to occur any- 

 where about orchards, gardens and borders of cultivated fields. 



The Carolina mantis ranges from central Ohio (Kostir) and 

 Indiana east to Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, west to 

 Nebraska and Utah and south to Arizona, Mexico and Cuba. Ad- 

 ventive specimens have also been recorded from Rhode Island and 

 New York. The type of Bactroinantis rirga Scudder (189G, 213) 

 at Cambridge shows that it was based upon an immature male of 

 8. Carolina, so that both the genus Bnctro'inatitis and the species 

 fall in synonymy. AFcrntis -trlicclcri Thos. (187."), 849), If. stolli 

 Sauss. (1869, 65) and M. dimldlata Sauss. (1871, 48) are also re- 

 garded as svnonvms. 



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When in the presence of its prey the Carolina mantis moves 

 almost imperceptibly along, stealing toward its victim like a cat 

 approaching a mouse. When sufficiently near, the foreleg is sud- 



