122 FAMILY III. MANTIDJE. THE MANTIDS. 



very finely serrate in front of the dorsal transverse impression. Length 

 of body, $, 4751, $, 5256; of pronotum, $, 1315, 9, 16.518; of 

 tegmina, $, 3335, 5, 3840 mm. 



An introduced European species, first recorded from the 

 United States as occurring near Rochester, N. Y., by Slingerland, 24 

 under the name of Stagmomantis Carolina, and next by Scudder, 25 

 under its true name. The specimens at hand were taken at Roch- 

 ester in September, 1913, so that it appears to have become thor- 

 oughly established, not only at Rochester, but also through egg- 

 cases from there at Ithaca (Davis, 1918). Kirby (1904, 250) gives 

 its distribution as "Southern and Central Europe, Northern and 

 Western Asia and Northern Africa." Latreille (1831, 9) states 

 that it is very common in the southern parts of France and Italy, 

 that it is sometimes brown and immaculate, and that the Turks 

 entertain for it a religious respect. An egg-case at hand is oval, 

 20x40x15 mm. in size, and less compact than that of the Caro- 

 lina mantis. The young, when first hatched, are said to be much 

 elongated and to have a singular habit of suspending themselves 

 from the egg-case by slender threads attached to the cerci. The 

 females are said by Schmaltz, 26 who collected them in numbers at 

 Rochester, to hide under long grasses and to attach their egg- 

 cases to weeds or grasses within two or three inches of the ground. 

 He states also that both sexes vary greatly in color, some individ- 

 uals, being almost gray while others are green, yellow, pale 

 brown or dark brown. 



III. PARATENODERA Relm, 1903g, 705 (Gr., "slender" -f- "neck.") 



Very elongate, robust species having the head broad, the facial 

 shield about twice as wide as high ; pronotum rather short, stout, 

 but feebly widened at transverse impression which is not less than 

 one-fourth from apex, side margins in female, finely and thickly 

 serrate, apex broadly rounded ; tegmina and wings fully devel- 

 oped, more or less hyaline in both sexes, their tips subacute, stig- 

 ma absent; front legs stout, their coxre with the lower margin 

 strongly toothed. This genus was separated by Rehn from Teno- 

 dera Burm. with the following species as the type. 



46. PARATENODERA SINEXSIS (Saussure), ISTla, 295. Chinese Mantis. 



Females with body and legs green or greenish-yellow, tegmina and 

 wings green, subhyaline: males either of the same hue or wholly brown, 

 or brown with the marginal field of tegmina green, and with both tegmina 



24 Entom. News, 1809, 288. =5 Psyche, 1900, 119. 26 Ent. News, 1914, 178. 



