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panying figure gives a very good idea of the ai»i)('aiaii(e of this 

 grub. An examiuation of oue, with even a couunon hand lens, 

 will show that its dark browu color is due to a multitude of 

 pointed, chitinous pyramids, which literally cover the nearly 

 white skin, and one has only to imagine such a creature work- 

 ing about in a sore, to obtain some idea of the pain inflicted. 

 The parent fly is about the size of a bumblebee and much re- 

 sembles that insect. It has a black head, yellow brown hairs 

 on the dorsum of the thorax, yellow hairs on the first s(^gment 



Fig. ^7 Ciiterebra cuniculi: side view; a larva, ventral aspect; bpupa. latpral view; 

 canterior extremity; (Hiooks and anterior spiracles of larva — all enlarged. (After Osborn, U. S. 

 dep't agric. div. ent. Bui. 5, u. s. p. h 9) 



of the abdomen and the remaining segments of a blm'black 

 color. It is represented in the accompanying figure. 



European praying mantis. Mantis r e 1 i g i o si u s Linn. This 

 beneficial insect was discovered by Mr Atwood in 1899 at Roch- 

 ester N. Y., where it had undoubtedly been brought on imported 

 nursery stock, Several notices of the introduction of this in- 

 sect have been published by Prof. M. V. Slingerland, who has 

 also issued an interesting bulletin^ on this species. It has now 

 become quite abundant in Rochester, and last spring an effort 

 was made, through the kind cooperation of Mr Atwood, who 

 sent 227 egg clusters, to introduce this beneficial insect into 



^Cornell univ. agric. exp. sta. Bui. 1S5. 



