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ognized by Caudell (1912) occurring in the West Indies, the other 

 one in our Southern States. 



48. GONATISTA GBISEA (Fabricius), 1793, 22. Grizzled Mantis. 



Female grayish, more or less mottled with fuscous; tegmina with two 

 oblique fuscous crossbars on apical half; inner wings bluish-black, their 

 margins hyaline; fore legs gray tinged with greenish and sprinkled with 

 fuscous; middle and hind legs with narrow fuscous crossbars. Male with 

 body and legs dull yellow, the latter barred with fuscous; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline, the former usually more or less thickly sprinkled with small 

 fuscous spots and larger blotches. Pronotum not carinate in either sex, 

 its front half with a narrow median groove; side margins in female finely 

 serrate. Length of body, $, 3638, $, 37 40; of pronotum, $, 911, 9, 

 1011; of tegmina, $, 3033, $, 1823 mm. 



Known from Indiana only by a single female collected by S. G. 

 Evans at Evansville, who wrote that he must have supposed it to 

 be a short-bodied form of $. Carolina, and therefore has no record 

 of date or exact locality of its capture. It may therefore have 

 been introduced on tropical fruits. Dunedin, Florida, Feb. 5 

 Jure 4 (W. 8. B.) ; the latter specimen at porch light. Gaines- 

 ville, Fla., Aug. 13; on magnolia. West Palm Beach, May 22 

 June 12; a half dozen adults and nymphs, resting on gray bark 

 and therefore almost invisible (Diiry). R. & H. give numerous 

 additional records from the southern third of Florida, stating 

 (U)14c, 383) that at Key West they "were taken chiefly from 

 gumbo-limbo trees in the heavy key scrub jungle and also on sea 

 grape. The insects were always on the trunks or branches, gen- 

 erally about six feet above the ground. They were perfectly pro- 

 tected when in their resting position, being then closely pressed 

 against the bark of the tree. When disturbed they would make 

 off with a rapid scuttling run." 



In this country the grizzled mantis occurs from extreme south- 

 ern Florida northward to Savannah, Ga., and Charlestown, S. C. 

 It has also been recorded from Texas, Cuba and San Domingo. 

 Scudder, Saussure and Kirby all regarded Mantis reticulata 

 Thunb. and M. phryganoirtcs Serv. as synonyms, but Caudell 

 (1912) restored both names as valid species, basing his table 

 wholly on the length and maculation of the male tegmina, two 

 exceedingly variable characters. One of the males of 0. g risen 

 from West Palm Beach has the tegmina but 30 mm. in length and 

 almost immaculate, which would cause it to run by Caudell's 

 table to plu-i/ganoides Serv., and it is very doubtful whether that 

 species will stand. 



