OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XVII, 1015 2") 



taking care of a brood of the large Chinese mantid Paratenodera 

 sinensis Sauss., which had been bred from the eggs in the Insec- 

 tary of the Bureau of Entomology. While the mantid larvae 

 were young and numerous they were kept together in one insect 

 case and frequent cases of cannibalism occurred; but as they 

 grew larger they were separated and kept each one in its own 

 standard Riley insect case; they became quite tame and readily 

 took living lepidopterous larva?, flies, or even pieces of meat held 

 by a pair of forceps. About one dozen reached maturity. One 

 morning one of these was offered a large living sarcophagid fly 

 held by the forceps; the mantid, eagerly grabbing it with its 

 graspers, squeezed some living maggots out of the abdomen of 

 the fly; several of these maggots were eaten by the mantid, two 

 or three crawled out on its chin and were promptly wiped into 

 the mouth. One morning sometime later this mantid was found 

 lying on the sand in the case, alive but weak and as it was picked 

 up three or four full grown fly maggots pushed out through the 

 side of the abdomen; the maggots burrowed into the sand and 

 eventually pupated, but the flies were not reared. Mr. Busck 

 was convinced that these maggots were the ones eaten, by the 

 mantid and that they had passed the mouth parts of the greedy 

 mantid unharmed and had been swallowed alive, and that they 

 in this manner accidentally had become parasitic. 



CATALOGUE OF RECENTLY DESCRIBED COCCID.*) V. 1 



BY E. R. SASSCER, Bureau of Entomology. 



Since the publication of the Catalogue of Recently Described 

 Coccida? IV, October 19, 1912, l 4 new genera and 103 new 

 species have been described. This makes a total of 3.3 new 

 genera, 9 new subgenera, 643 new species, and 45 new varieties 

 recorded since the appearance of Mrs. Fernald's catalogue in 

 1903. In preparing these catalogues the cooperation of coccid- 

 ologists is earnestly solicited, especially in adding references 

 which may have been overlooked. 



1 This catalogue is believed to be fairly complete to November, 1914, 

 and is the continuation of a series of papers which have hitherto been 

 published by the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, as Technical Series, No. 12, Tart I ; Technical Series, No. 16, 

 Part III; Technical Series, No 16, Part IV; Technical Series, No. 16, 

 Part VI; and Technical Scries, No. 16, Part VII. 



