144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 



A SPECIES OF ORTHOPTERA. 



[Plate IX represents a species of Orthoptera captured in Phila- 

 delphia. We have received the following information in regard 

 to it:] 



To the News: — At your request I furnish you with all the in- 

 formation that I possess concerning the capture of the large 

 mantis figured in this number of the News. The specimen was 

 captured on the 16th of last October at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, by 

 my neighbor, Mr. Joseph Hindermyer, who found the insect 

 resting on the upper part of one of his tomato vines. Mr. H., 

 not being familiar with the insect's harmless nature, was afraid to 

 touch it, but at last managed to secure it in a paste-board box, 

 in which condition it was brought to me. I found on dissecting 

 the abdomen of the insect that it was a female. The eggs, which 

 were oblong and of a whitish color, were contained in a glutinous 

 mass, from which it was hard to separate them. 



Although a careful search was made in the vicinity in which 

 the specimen was found, no others were discovered. 



Learning later that the native habitat of the insect was China 

 and Japan, I made inquiry among those having nurseries and 

 conservatories in the neighborhood where the specimen was cap- 

 tured, regarding the importation of plants from the above-named 

 countries. At the nursery of Thomas Meehan & Sons — the 

 largest nursery in the vicinity of where the insect was captured — 

 I was informed that they were constantly receiving plants from 

 all parts of the world, so that it is more than likely that the in- 

 sect was introduced through this channel. 



Philip Laurent. 



' ' I have examined your fine photographs of Hierodulida. 

 There is no doubt that it is the Tenodera sinensis Saussure, from 

 China and Japan. 



" It is certainly very interesting that this large species has been 

 transported to the United States. I suppose the bag of eggs has 

 come over pasted on the leaves or on the branches of a Japanese 

 plant. It is curious that it has supported the change of climate, 

 for the Tenodera are only from the hot countries. It is, though, 

 a question if the species will stand your winters. I suppose there 

 must be many other specimens living in the neighborhood of the 



