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In Entomological News, April, 1914, p. 178, there is an article 
on “ Mantis religiosa Linnzus in Rochester, New York, in 1913,” 
by Robert Schmaltz, wherein the habits of the females in hiding 
under long grass, etc., is mentioned. The species is now, through 
the efforts of Prof. Slingerland and others, well established about 
Ithaca, N. Y., and in my collection are three males from there, 
taken by Mr. George P. Pnugelhardt in Aucust, 1914) Unie 
species will probably spread slowly over New York state and 
elsewhere. 
I have made an effort to rear in my garden on Staten Island 
the native Stagmomantis carolina, found as far north as the Dis- 
trict of Columbia and southern New Jersey, but so far have not 
succeeded in bringing the young to maturity. Probably this was 
due to insufficient food. The largest nymph raised measured 
twenty-five millimeters. This insect has, however, been bred to 
maturity as far north as Staten Island, but has failed to estab- 
lish’ itself. In the Report U.S; Dept: of Avriculimme, 1cO25am 
377, 5. 5S. Rathvon has this to say of the eggs of Stagmomantis 
carolina: ‘The amount of cold these eggs are capable of bearing 
may be inferred from the fact that the Mantis has been success- 
fully raised for two or three consecutive seasons within the limits 
of Lancaster City, Pa., from eggs brought here from Maryland 
during which time, on several occasions, the cold had been from 
four to ten degrees below zero.” 
In the Report U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1866, p. 40, Townend 
Glover says of Mantis carolina: “The insects have been success- 
fully raised as far north as the Hudson river, by bringing the 
egg cases from the middle states, several cases being found fas- 
tened to the trees the next autumn, but after that they disappeared 
entirely.” This experiment took place probably at Fishkill Land- 
ing on the Hudson River, for Townend Glover gave that as his 
address in the Agricultural Report for 1858 in connection with an 
article on “ Insects Frequenting the Orange Trees of Florida.” 
