328 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
will be persevered in until successful or until it is definitely shown 
that our climate is unsuited to them. 
For further information the student is referred to the following 
works : 
Sharp, — Cambridge Natural History, vol. 5, chap. 10 (1895). 
Caudell, — "Notes on Nearctic Orthopterous Insects," Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
vol. 44, p. 605-608 (1913). 
Rau and Rau, — "The biology of Stagmomantis Carolina,^' Trans. Acad. 
Sci. St. Louis, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 1-56, pi. 1-18 (1913). 
Key to Species of Mantidae recorded from New England. 
A. Very large; both sexes about 90 mm. (3^ inches) long; hind femora about 
an inch (26 to 27 mm.) long. 
Chinese Mantis, Paratenodera sinensis, p. 329. 
A A. Size mediimi, (2 to 2j inches long, hind femora 15 to 18 mm.) 
B. Facial shield (between eyes, below antennae) nearly ( 9 ) or quite (cf ) 
three times as wide as median length. 
Carolina Mantis, Stagmomantis Carolina, p. 328. 
BB. Facial shield about twice as wide as long. 
European Mantis, Mantis religiosa, p. 330. 
Carolina Mantis. 
Stagmomantis Carolina (Johannsen). 
Gryllus carolinus Johannsen, Amoen. Acad., vol. 6, p. 396, n. 28 (1763). 
Stagmomantis Carolina Scudder, Psyche, vol. 9, p. 119 (1900), (reported by 
Henshaw) . 
Color: Male, grayish brown. Tegmina semi-transparent, 
grayish, more or less mottled with dark smoky brown; sometimes 
almost wholly brown. Body and feet often yellowish green. 
Middle and hind knees, and front coxae and femora banded with 
dark brown in the brown form. Female: either similar in color 
to the male, or wholly green, the tegmina opaque; a yellow-bor- 
dered blackish spot on the tegmina, more distinct in the green 
form. 
Measuremerds. 
Body Pronotum Tegmina Ant. fem. Ant. tib. Post, f em. Antenna 
Male . . . 49-57 16 -18 32-37 9.5-11.5 7 13-14 24 
Female.. 52-62 18.5-22 23-24.5 13-16 10 15-19 13-15 mm. 
This species was reported by Mr. Samuel Henshaw to Mr. 
Scudder as having been taken in Rhode Island. Mr. Henshaw 
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