Smithsonian Report, 1 950. — Gurney 



Plate 9 



Egg Laying by a Narrow-winged Mantis 



Three views of a female, showing (upper) the hctiinning of oviposition, (center) 

 ovipositioii nearly completed, and (lower) tiie finished egg mass with the female 

 eating a fly before moving elsewhere. Approximately natural size. (Photo- 

 graphs by John G. Pitkin.) 



