74 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XIII 
eral places at Anglesea.* At the time of Mr. Wenzel’s report, 
Prof. Smith said that he had egg masses of Tenodera put out 
from the Orange Mountains to Burlington County, and at not a 
single place had the insect established itself; “individual spec- 
imens have been found here and there, showing that they have 
just only maintained themselves.” 
In Entomological News for December, 1911, p. 478, “Mr. 
Schmitz said that at Anglesea . . . he had seen a mantis Para- 
tenodera feeding upon a Cicada.” In the same journal for June, 
IQI4, p. 279, there is an article entitled “Some Facts about the 
Egg Nest of Paratenodera sinensis,’ by Harry B. Weiss, wherein 
it is shown by experiment, that the eggs protected in their bulky 
envelope, are not subjected to sudden changes in temperature. 
From the foregoing it would be expected that this hardy insect 
would be found in various parts of New Jersey, and we can now 
record several specimens from Staten Island, N. Y. In the sum- 
mer of 1902 two male Paratenodera were raised in the writer’s 
garden at New Brighton from egg masses received from Mr. 
Laurent of Philadelphia, and in the same year egg masses were 
placed in suitable situations in the Clove Valley. In the summer 
of 1913 two more males were raised in the writer’s garden on 
Staten Island, and egg masses were placed in briar tangles at 
Yaphank on Long Island. 
In the fall of 1916 two specimens were brought to the Curtis 
High School, Staten Island, by Mr. Bennett, janitor of the build- 
ing. ‘They were collected at Mariners’ Harbor. On October 17, 
1917, Mr. Edward J. Burns informed me that Mr. Bennett had 
that day brought in another mantid collected on the side of his 
house, 229 South Ave., Mariners’ Harbor. 
On September 6, 1917, Mr. Thomas Bryan brought to the Pub- 
lic Museum of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 
a living female mantis collected by a friend of his at Lockman 
Ave., Mariners’ Harbor. 
On October 15, 1917, Mr. Elliott Merrill, of Mariners’ Har- 
bor, sent a living male mantis to the Public Museum, Staten 
Island. 
From the foregoing it will be seen that Paratenodera simensis 
* Entomological News, March, 19009, p. 142. 
