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to the members of the Neuroptoid genus Mantis pa. This was not- 

 ed by Saussure who states (1871, 10) : ''Ces insectes ont les fades 

 de Neuropteres, et Perty les avait meme classes dans cet ordre." 

 A second specimen, which I saw at Philadelphia, was taken at 

 Key West, July 7, 1912, by R. & H., who state that it "was taken 

 while swiftly running about on the ground under high jungle 

 brush." There is no other record of its occurrence within our 

 bounds, but it will probably be found in small numbers through- 

 out subtropical Florida. 



Subfamily III. VATINJE. 



Elongate slender species, having the antenna? of male pectinate 

 or serrate; middle of head armed with two corneous processes 

 which are united at base ; middle and hind femora and tibia? mul- 

 ti-carinate above. This subfamily is represented in the United 

 States by two genera, a single species of one being recorded from 

 the eastern portion. 



I. PIIYLLOVATES Kirbv, 1904, 302. (Gr., "leaf" -f "prophet.") 



Head triangular, transverse; antennae of male serrate or sub- 

 pectinate ; pronotum slender, feebly and gradually dilated in 

 front, the broader portion more or less rhomboidal with apex 

 rounded; tegmina and wings fully developed; front legs slender, 

 their tarsi rather short and broad. 



( ). PHYLLOVATES CHLOROPH.BA (Blanchard), 1836, pi. 135. Greenish- 

 brown Mantis. 



Female in great part green; male usually brown, with tegmina and 

 wings hyaline, their marginal field and tips green. Frontal processes of 

 head 3 3.5 mm. in length, more slender in male. Pronotum narrow, 

 elongate, carinate and finely granulate above, the margins finely serrate, 

 more finely and less densely so in male. Tegmina of female greenish- 

 opaque with usually a fuscous band near apex, their marginal field wide, 

 strongly concave near apex; those of male more narrow with front border 

 subsinuate, feebly concave at middle: wings of female fuscous-brown, 

 greenish-brown toward apex. Length of body, <J , 65, 9, 67; of pronotum, 

 $, 29, 9. 31; of tegmina, $ , 48, 9 , 40 mm. 



Blanchard's type of this mantis was from AYatertown, N. Y., 

 and was probably accidentally introduced. Scudder lias recorded 

 it from the "Gulf States" and (1S96, 209) more definitely from 

 Louisiana. It is known from Central America, occurs through- 

 out Mexico, and is liable to be found anywhere in the extreme 

 southern portion of the area covered by this paper. It is therefore 

 included as an adventive species which has not yet become a 

 known resident. 



