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" Testaceous, convex, pubescence white, eyes black ; head triangular, 

 base emarginate with the angles acute, a smooth longitudinal line, moder- 

 ately punctate ; thorax not narrower than the head, shorter than wide, 

 obovate, obsoletely canaliculate, rather densely punctate ; elytra very 

 finely punctate, apex subtruncate ; abdomen dark fuscous (nigro-fusco). 

 Length, .ir inch." — [Tr.] Agassiz, Lake Superior, p. 231. Supple- 

 mentary characters were added (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1852, p. 

 103): "Head sparingly granulato-punctate, thorax very strongly nar- 

 rowed posteriorly ; elytra convex, truncate at base ; antennae slender and 

 long, terminal spurs of tibiae very distinct, those of anterior tibiae very 

 unequal, the anterior tibise of the male slightly sinuate internally and the 

 terminal spine more prominent." The elytra do not cover the abdomen. 

 The pallid examples occur on the coast among the hills of white sand 

 immediately fronting the ocean, and I took one on the beach of Anastasia 

 Island, Florida ; those with dark abdomens, a little further back at the 

 base of those bordering on the salt meadows. 



Under the name A. arenarius, Capt. Casey has described from a 

 unique taken at Newport, Rhode Island, what seems to be ihe form of 

 pallens with the fuscous abdomen, as described by Dr. Leconte. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

 Stagmomaiitis carolma, Linn. 



In his index to the Mantidie of North America (Can. Ent., August, 

 1896, 211), Mr. Scudder gives the range of this species as " Florida to 



Arizona north to Maryland, Southern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, 



and Utah." 



He might also have included the southern half of Indiana, since it is 

 common in the counties bordering on the Ohio River, and is occasionally 

 taken as far north as the City of Indianapolis ; specimens taken here 

 (females, brown form) having been brought to me on Sept. 23rd and 26th, 

 1895, and Sept. 4th, 1896. I have also a green female from Mitchell, 

 Lawrence Co. Mr. S. G. Evans, of Evansville, Ind., in a personal letter, 

 says : " The Mantids are found here of all sizes and colours, the eggs 

 and young being almost as common as mosquitoes. I have on several 

 occasions placed male and female together in a glass jar, and the female 

 always devoured the male, and generally while in the act of copulating, 

 the bodies remaining together until the male was almost consumed." 



Gonatista grisea, Fabr. 



The specimen from Indiana mentioned by Mr. Scudder (Joe cit.) 



