NEW ENGLAND ORTIIOPTERA. 



October, lyoo.l PSYCHE. 119 



wliile dusted. Thoracic feet brown. No the I.Tival st.nge. Stage IV in one e.xample 



tubercles or setae. Spiracles niinnte, brown. lasted fonr weeks. 

 Central segments long drawn out, tlie ends 

 contracted. 



Stitffe V. Head lobes produced into high 

 cones as before but each with a blunt low Mr. Samuel Henshaw sends the following 

 protuberance before and a little inwardiv; additions (species or localities) to the List of 

 mos.sy granular, minutely mottled wliile. New England Orthoptera published in the 

 brown and black, finely, pulverulenllv ; width Septeinher Psyche. 

 1.7 lum. Thoracic feet colored like head, Labia burgessi Boston, Mass. 

 short, held close to it. Joint 2 horned with Iscknofteya fennsylvauica Rhode Lsland. 

 two bark gray points at the tip. A low Nyciobora sericea Springfield, Mass. 

 double blackish lump below the spiracle of Pcrtplancta aii^tralasiae Welleslev, Mass. 

 joint 6 corresponding to tubercles iv and v, Stagmomaniis Carolina Rhode Island, 

 varying in development in different speci- ^<'/««//<«.? /inc//v;«c;-Hi Brookline, Mass. 

 mens. Ends much contracted, the central Oecanthus quadripunctatns Cambridge, 

 part long drawn out, slender. Feet short; Blue Hill, and Nantucket, Mass. 

 anal plate pointed cordate; anal leg shields Ot'rff«/'//«.< «i'^/-;'("or«/5 Jaffrey, N. H., Cam- 

 trilobate. Leaf green, minutely white bridge and Blue Hill, Mass. 

 frosted with dense granules, pait of them Oecanthus a7igi{stipen7iisCa.m\)Y\i\'je,'^\v.f,'i. 

 green; a .series of small dorsal interseg- OerrtwMw.f^/;//' Gloucester, Mass. 

 mental black-vinous streaks with whitish Gryllotnlpa boreulis \'t. 

 frosted edges. Tubercles indicated by dark 



spots, themselves obsolete. Joints 10 to 13 MANTIS RELIGIOSA IN AMERICA, 

 gray and brownish shaded ; a dark patch 



before the foot of joint 10 ; venter pale. The Prof. M. V. Slingerland h.is just sent me 



larva is a remarkable mimic of the young for determination a female specimen of this 



twigs of its food plant, Condalin fcrica. insect, reared at Ithaca from eggs received 



Cofoow an imperfect net of threads between from Rochester, N. Y., where, according to 



leaves. Pupa light brown with darker cases him, ■■the insect has established itself." It 



and a broken dorsal line. Larvae from Palm is the first time it has been reported in the 



Beach, Florida; stage I found Feb. 26th, ma- New World so far as I know. It occurs in 



ture larva May 15th, the growth very slow southern Europe and in Asia as far as Hin- 



for a subtropical insect. Probably breeds dustan and Java and in Africa as far south as 



continuoush', though much lime is spent in Zanzibar. .S. //. Scnddcr. 



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Contains keys for the determination of tlie higher groups as well as the 

 nearly 200 genera of our Orthoptera, with full bibliographical aids to further 

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