1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 289 



feel that perhaps I ought to speak of them. My home is on 

 tlie northern outskirts of Kochester, and I fouiul many of 

 them about my house, and they were also taken about Char- 

 lotte and Summerville. I did not hear of any furtlior South. 

 Those that I observetl were either green or light brown, ap- 

 pai'eutly two varieties. 



Early in the spring 1 found a cluster of the eggs on a twig 

 that had been blown from a tree. 1 identitie<l it but not to my 

 siitisfactiou, for until I saw the perfect inseet I had no idcii of 

 their being found here. The specimens I observed were goo<l 

 feetlei"sand in my opinion they should be eneoui"age<l, a** their 

 diet was entirely insects.** 



Although this insect has doubtless l>eeu reare<l many times 

 in this State, from eggs received from the South, as we have 

 done here at the insectary the past summer from eggs received 

 from Xew Mexico, yet I find but one recorde<l instance of such 

 rearings. (rlover has stated that "it has l)een successfully 

 niisedas far Xorth as the Hudson Kiver]>y bringing the ^j:'^- 

 cjises from the Middle States. Sevei-al cases weie found fast- 

 ene<l to the trees the next autumn, but after that they entirely 

 ilisappearetl." It is said that the eggs probably could not en- 

 dure our northern wintei^s. It will l:>e noted that Mr. AtwiRnl 

 found an egg-case in Kochester in the spring, but there is 

 nothing to indicate that the eggs were alive. Mr. Scudder in 

 his '' Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Xorth America ** recoitled 

 two species of Mantids, cldorophaca and phrjiffinwUlett, fi-om 

 Xew York State, the former nejir Watertowu, X. Y., and the 

 latter from Xew York. Mr. Scudder just writes me that "no 

 Mantidie are known to live normally in Xew York. One of 

 tlie two species I rw«>rdetl was probably imported in packing 

 from Florida ; the other Avas also either an accidental t)ccur- 

 rence or a mistake of locality. 1 have never heard of Htoff- 

 momaiitiH Carolina, our northernmost Mantid, from as far north 

 as Xew York.'* I have aske<l Mr. At wood to continue ob- 

 servations upon the insect to determine if it survives the win- 

 ter and appeal's ag"ain in the same locality next yesir. 



XoTK — M r. Atwood writes me further under date of October ol. iStW : " I have 

 no doubt but what I will be able to jret s|)e<'iinens for you next summer, Ih-- 

 i-aiiNe surely we rjlnnot have as severe a winter this coming year as we had the 

 past, and l" liave every reason to l»elieve tliat these insects that I observed here 

 iiatched out near my house. There were so very many of them that it could not 

 liave been a»-cidental, their coming liere. I have also reason to Ijelieve that tlie 

 eggsthati found in the mass in tlie spring were alsoalive, they having that ajn 

 l>earanceand being not very much unlike the eggef the grasshopper. Theinsect 

 did well in our latitude, it beingquite slender in .Inly and August andreachinga 

 strongand sturdy gr«>wth tlu-laltcr juirtof Scptcnilx-r. their abdunu-ns iK-iriv; dc- 

 cide<lly cor|iulenl.'° 



