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turkeys and hogs amongst them, and they would certainly eat poisoned 

 meat, but all of these methods are impracticable. 



The only successful method of combatting the moving bands is 

 that of fencing and dilating. The fences as already described effec- 

 tively stop their advance, but to fence in all of the country that it is 

 possible for the crickets to travel into would be an expensive under- 

 taking. A great many can be trapped in the ditches but a few score- 

 wagon loads of dead crickets does not appreciably diminish the num- 

 ber of the living. 



TWO INTERESTING MANTIDS FROM THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



By A. N. Caudell, 



Washington, D. C. 



(Plate III.) 



Among the members of the order Orthoptera occurring in the 

 southern part of the United States, making collecting in that region so 

 interesting as well as profitable, are the two species herein considered. 

 Both being rare, one hitherto unrecorded from our fauna, the follow- 

 ing notes, with accompanying figures, need no excuse. 



Brunneria borealis Scudder. (Plate III, Fig. 3.) 



Brunneria borealis Scudd., Can. Ent., XXVIII, 212 (1896) ; Cat. Orth. U. S., 13 

 (1900). 



This species was described from a female nymph from the Gulf 

 Coast of Texas, but in the original description mention is made of an 

 adult female in the museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. 

 These two specimens have been examined. Besides these two speci- 

 mens I have seen two adult females in the collection of N. Banks, taken 

 in Brazos county, Texas, and one adult female is in the National Mu- 

 seum from Louisiana, taken by J. B. Coleman at Cowley in October, 

 1903. This latter specimen is the one figured. The male seems to 

 have never been reported. It will very surely have elytra and wings 

 about two thirds as long as the abdomen, thus agreeing with the other 

 known species of the genus. 



These females are very closely allied to the South American species 

 brasiliensis, but the supraanal plate is somewhat more elongate, meas- 



