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They are intermediate in relative slenderness between Thesprotia and 

 the minor mantid. Oligonicella scudderi is widespread in the South- 

 east, extends north on the Great Plains to Nebraska, and inhabits all 

 Texas except the extreme western and southern portions. In the 

 southern extremity of its range, it is believed to have two generations 

 a year (Hebard, 1943). Its congener, mexicanus, occupies a wide area 

 in Mexico and northern Central America but in the United States 

 occurs primarily in southeastern Arizona (Hebard, 1943). 



REFERENCES 



Most of the books in the following list are written in a popular or semipopular 

 style, and a majority of public libraries and bookstores are likely to contain 

 some of them. Although not listed here, most textbooks of entomology contain 

 short treatments on mantids. The more technical pai)ers were published mainly 

 in strictly entomological journals and will be found in few libraries except those 

 containing a good deal on natural history or the agricultural sciences. They 

 are included for the benefit of students who have such serials available and 

 who wish to do supplemental reference reading. 



BAiiL, E. D., TiNKHAM, E. R., Flook, Robert, and Vorhies, C. T. 



1942. The grasshoppers and other Orthoptera of Arizona. Arizona Agr. 

 Exp. Stat. Techn. Bull. 93, pp. 255-373, illus. 

 Blatchley, W. S. 



1920. Orthoptera of northeastern America, 784 pp., illus. (especially pp. 

 115-129). Indianapolis. 

 Breiand, Osmond P. 



1941a. Notes on the biology of Stagmomantis Carolina (Joh.). Bull. Brook- 

 lyn Ent. Soc, vol. 36, pp. 170-177. 

 1941b. Podagrion mantis Ashmead and other parasites of praying mantid 

 egg cases. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 34, pp. 99-113. 

 Breland, Osmond P., and Dobson, Jack W. 



1947. Specificity of mantid oothecae. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 40, pp. 

 557-575, illus. 

 Bromley, Stanley W. 



1932. Observations on the Chinese mantid Paratenodera sinensis Sauss. 

 Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol 27, pp. 196-201. 

 Caxjdell, a. N. 



1905. Two interesting mantids from the United States. Journ. New York 

 Ent. Soc., vol. 13, pp. 82-83, illus. 

 Chopabd, Ltjcden. 



1938. La biologic des orthopteres. Encyclopedic Entomologique, vol. 20, 



pp. 1-541, illus. Paris. 

 1949. Traits de zoologie, edited by Pierre Grass^, vol. 9, 1,117 pp., illus. 

 ( Mantids, pp. 306-407. ) Paris. 

 Davis, W. T. 



1918. Introduction of Palaearctic preying mantids into the North Atlantic 

 States. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 13, pp. 73-76. 

 Didlake, Mary. 



1926. Observations on the life-histories of two species of praying mantis. 

 Ent. News, vol. 37, pp. 169-174, illus. 



