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has probably established itself on Staten Island, but whether 
through the egg masses put out in 1902 and later, or from some 
New Jersey source, remains unknown. 
It may be added that egg masses of this species have on two 
occasions been placed in the shrubbery in Bronx Park, but Mr. 
Raymond L. Ditmars informs me that the insect has failed to 
establish itself. This is probably owing to the great number of 
squirrels, who energetically investigate all likely sources of food 
supply, and no doubt destroyed the egg masses. Mr. Charles E. 
Snyder, of the New York Zoological Garden, has placed egg 
masses about his home at Scarsdale, N. Y., and though a mature 
mantis was later discovered, nothing further has been seen of the 
insect. Egg masses have also been put out at Whitestone, Long 
Island, but no results have been reported. 
_ Mr. George P. Engelhardt, of the Brooklyn Museum, informs 
me that Dr. Felix Metzner, six or seven years ago, secured sev- 
eral egg clusters of Paratenodera from the Philadelphia colony, 
and placed them in his garden, 142 Woodbine Street, Brooklyn. 
This new colony has maintained itself ever since, and a number 
of adult mantids have been found by Dr. Metzner, or have been 
brought to him by neighbors each year. Two egg clusters of 1917 
are in his city garden at the present time. 
In Entomological News for December, 1899, Prof. M. V. 
Slingerland has an article on the Occurrence of Stagmomantis 
carolina in New York. The specimens were collected by Mr. H. 
F. Atwood at Rochester, N. Y., and in his letter to Prof. Slinger- 
land he states that the insect was also taken “about Charlotte 
and Summerville.” 
The species referred to in the above-mentioned article was 
really the European Mantis religiosa Linn. In Psyche, October, 
1goo, p. 119, Mr. S. H. Scudder has a note on “ Mantis Religiosa 
in America,” in which he refers to specimens sent to him by Prof. 
Slingerland. He gives the distribution of the species as “ south- 
ern Europe and in Asia as far as Hindustan and Java, and in 
Africa as far south as Zanzibar.” This species and its introduc- 
tion into New York state was later interestingly discussed by 
Prof. Slingerland in Bulletin 185, Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station, November, 1900. 
