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demy of Natural Sciences; Pablo Beach, Fla., September 27, 
1913) female (W.- 12, Dawis));) Carrabelle) (Flay Seprembenmes 
1915, female (Rehn and Hebard)). ‘The following in the author’s 
collection: Pablo Beach, Fla., September 5, 1913, female; La 
Grange, Brevard Co., Fla., October, 1913, female; Everglade, 
Lee Co., Fla., July, 1912, female; Parish, Manatee Co., Fla., four 
females collected from October 2 to 20, 1916 (Joseph Lienhart), 
also collected at same place September 24, 1918, female; Oc- 
tober 7, 1918, female and September 29, 1918, male. 
While these dates are all in the late summer or fall, mature 
female mantids are to be found in the spring as well, for we col- 
lected Stagmomantis carolina at Everglade, Lee Co., Florida, in 
April, 1912. Of this last species we have Florida specimens from 
South Jacksonville, New Augustine, La Grange, Corinardo, Big 
Pine Key, Punta Gorda and Parish. This and Stagmomantis 
floridensis are associated and appear to be about equally common. 
As the species of the genus Stagmomantis have become much 
confused in literature it may be well to further consider some of 
the relatives of S. floridensis. In Kirby’s catalogue of 1904 the 
several synonyms of S. carolina mentioned appear from a further 
examination of the descriptions to be such, and most of them 
were also so recorded by Mr. Scudder in his catalogue of 1900. 
In 1813 Casper Stoll described Mantis carolina in Spectres, 
Mantis, and gave on plate 24 figure 91 a picture of the female 
in the brown phase. He also shows on the same plate in figure 
92 a female of a species from Georgia and Virginia of what we 
now known to be the same insect in the green phase. Stoll con- 
sidered this last a male, probably because the abdomen was not as 
stout as in the brown example. As the name carolina was preoc- 
cupied, Saussure in 1869 called the species represented by figure 
92, which he considered distinct, stollu, and Kirby so lists it from 
Georgia, Virginia and Cuba. Mr. Scudder in his catalogue con- 
sidered stollii a synonym of carolina Linneus, which appears to 
be correct. 
In 1859 Saussure described S. ferox from Carolina and Mexico ; 
later (1872) he considered it a variety of dimidiata, and still 
later in Bio. Centr.-Amer., 1894, he and Zehntner dropped the 
variety name and state that dimidiata Burmeister is found in 
