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Gave her one male halali and two male 

 caldarcna. They were all caught in suc- 

 cession, but she only ate a very small 

 piece out of each. At times she seemed 

 very frightened of them, and in running 

 away she twice fell upon her back, when 

 she had some difficulty in righting herself 

 owing to weakness. 

 March 20. Put in three male caldarcna, one of which 

 was caugiit and the whole of one fore- 

 wing and part of the tliorax eaten. 



„ 21. Remaining two butterflies untouched. 

 Mantis had by now eaten off the ends 

 of all her tarsi except the anterior and 

 intermediate on one side. 



„ 22. In the afternoon I found the Mantis dead 

 on her back. 



X. Second Experiment with Mantis. Salisbury. 



1898. 

 March 19. Caught a large green female Mantis of same 

 species as previous one [Sphodromantis 

 lincola, Burm.], and gave her one Junonict 

 ccbrcnc and three Tcrias scnrgalcnns, all 

 of which she ate. She also ate the 

 following : — 



„ 20. One T. scnegalcnsia, one T. hrigitta, one 

 Belcnois scverina. 



„ 21. One J. cehrene, one Cafochrgsojis osiris. 



„ 22. Two Abmia amazoula, without showing any 

 signs of distaste. 



,, 23. One Sjrmdasis nakdcnsis, two J. ccbrcnc. 



„ 24. One T. scncgalcnsis, two Myrina ficcdnla. 



„ 25. The Mantis escaped from the box this 

 morning, and I did not find her till 

 5.30 p.m., when she was busy ovipositing 

 on the side of a book. She had then 

 laid about a third of her eggs, and did 

 not stop laying till 8.30 p.m.' 



„ 2G. Mantis ate one Parosmodcs ictcria, and two 

 Ilcspcria sjno. She seemed very hungry, 

 following the butterflies about instead of 

 waiting for them to come within striking 

 distance. 



