F 
22 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter’s Experiments on 
herb tasting like sorrel, and began to get very playful 
and inclined to play hide-and-seek. 
Obs. 84. Sp.——F. A mantis egg-capsule, prob- 
ably empty, munched, and thrown away. 
Obs. 85. Sp— —G. Another similarly treated. 
M. then ate some grass, unsuccessfully chased some 
small grasshoppers (Acridiidae) and ate some more 
grass, keeping one eye on a large crane high overhead, 
which I had not seen. | 
Obs. 86. Sp.—.—H. Ate a Cyrtacanthacris grass- 
hopper. 
Obs. 87. Sp—-—lI. Investigated an empty 
spider’s retreat. 
Obs. 88. Sp—.—J. Ate a large mantis egg- 
capsule, of the size of a small walnut. 
Obs. 89. Sp.—.—Found another, bit and left it. 
Obs. 90. Sp.—.—I showed him on the ground a 
smooth caterpillar, dark brown and reddish, but he 
would not touch it. Though freely exposed it was 
not extremely conspicuous. 
Obs. 91. Sp—.—K. Ate a medium-sized, brown 
Acridian. 
Obs. 92. Sp. 19.—He then walked about, constantly 
looking up at the under-side of a leafy branch close 
to the ground, whereon was something I could not 
see, or perhaps had failed to see. Suddenly there was 
a pounce, and [ saw that he had pulled on to the 
ground one of the large mantises Idolwm diabolicum, 
which lay on the ground in two pieces, which he ate 
ereedily. 
Obs. 93. Sp.—--—He then ate two more mantis 
egg-capsules. 
Obs. 94. Sp—.—lL. Investigated an empty spider 
retreat. 
Obs. 95. Sp. 19—M. On this bush, hanging 
upside down on a branch near the ground, was another 
Idolum mantis. M. at first was not at all sure that he 
wanted it, but at. last knocked it on to the ground. 
Here it stood in the erect posture previously described, 
facing the monkey and me, looking very ferocious and 
formidable; the white under-surface of the thoracic 
expansions being especially noticeable. M. had quite 
a little fight with the mantis, going “in” and “ out” 
like a pugilist. During the fight I heard a curious 
as 
