THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 



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PERIPLANETA Burm. 



P. americana Linn. Throughout the State, rarely common in my experi- 

 ence. Mr. Davis notes it "in green-houses and other like situations, 

 where it is warm and moist." In one case, in Camden, it was 

 found infesting a feed store-house so abundantly that two quarts 

 were captured in a single night. 



PANCHLORA Burm. 



P. poeyi Sauss. (viridis Burm.) Staten Island, one specimen found in 

 March in a closet where bananas had been kept (Ds). This .species, 

 its ally "P. exoleta," "Periplaneta autralasiae," "Nyctibora mexicana" 

 and "Leucophaea surinamensis," are not natives of New Jersey and 

 not really a part of its fauna. Their occurrenc is accidental, merely 

 coming in with material imported from the tropics, and the species 

 do not maintain themselves in the State. 



Family MANTID^E. 



Of these very peculiar insects we have only one native species, which 

 is taken rarely in the southern section. There is another which has been 

 intentionally introduced, and this has now established itself at several 

 points. They have a very long, narrow prothorax and immensely de- 

 veloped fore-legs, which they use in* holding or grasping their prey, for 

 they are carnivorous. The other legs are feebly developed and the body 

 is clumsy. The eggs are laid in masses on twigs, and are covered by a 

 fibrous substance, which holds them together. The native species is too 

 rare to be of any economic value, and up to the present time that is also 

 true of the introduced species. 



STAGMOMANTIS Sauss. 

 S. Carolina Johann. Has been taken in Atlantic and Ocean Counties. 



Fig- 74- Stagmomantis Carolina: a, female; b, male; natural size. 



The "S. dimidiata" Burm., is omitted as unlikely to occur. 



