SUBFAMILY I. M ANTING. 



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mina of 9 green, often with front margin yellowish, of $ , hyaline, the 

 stigmatic patch faint in $ , absent in $ . Pronotum slender, its greatest 



width contained a little over five 

 times in the length. Inner wings 

 yellowish, tessellate on the outer 

 half only, the basal portion and 

 front margin without translu- 

 cent spaces. Length of body, $ , 

 62, 2 , 58 71 ; of pronotum, $ 

 22, 9, 2427.5; of tegmina, $, 

 38, 9, 2224; of hind femora, $, 

 17, 9, 1821 mm. (Fig. 53.) 



Dunedin. Fla., Oct. 25, one 

 female; Utopia, Fla., March 

 4, one nymph (W.8.B.). De- 

 scribed from Pimta Gorda and 

 Parish, Fla., and also record- 

 ed by Davis, loc. cit., from 

 Pablo P>each, Carrabelle, La 

 Grange and Everglade, July- 

 September. Not known out- 

 side of Florida, where it is 

 said by Davis to be associated 

 with and about equally as 

 common as 8. Carolina. 



Fig. S3- Female, type. (After Davis.) 



II. MANTIS Linnaeus, 1758, 425. (Gr., "a seer or prophet.") 



Medium sized species distinguished from Stagmomantis by the 

 characters given in the key and by having the tegminal stigma of 

 female wanting or of the same color as the tegmina. Pronotum 

 in our single introduced species proportionally shorter and 

 broader than in Stagmomantis, the margins in the female finely 

 and densely serrate for three-fourths of their length. Subgenital 

 plate of male smaller and less tapering and the cerci and styles 

 longer and stouter. Nine species are recognized by Kirby, all in- 

 habitants of the Eastern Continent. 



45. MANTIS RELIGIOSA Linnaeus, 1758, 426. Praying Mantis, European 

 Mantis. 



Female, elongate robust; $, more slender. Body and legs green or 

 greenish-yellow; tegmina of 9 broader, uniform grass-green, those of $ 

 paler green, often almost hyaline, narrowly edged with brown, in both 

 sexes reaching or slightly surpassing the tip of abdomen; wings as long 

 as tegmina, transparent or very pale green. Pronotum of male with sides 



