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North America, Texas and other localities to the south including 
Cuba. Mantis dimidiata was described originaly from South 
America in 1838. Kirby in his catalogue restores ferox to spe- 
cific rank and gives Carolina, Texas, Mexico and Central America 
as its habitat. However, the figure of ferox published by Saus- 
sure in 1872 looks like carolina Linn., and Mr. Scudder in his 
catalogue of 1900 places it as a synonym of that species, which 
appears to be correct. 
Mr. Scudder writing in the Canadian Entomologist, 1896, p. 
210, recognizes but two species of Stagmomantis in the United 
States, namely carolina Linn. and limbata Hahn. He considered 
that dimidiata could not, as far as United States material was 
concerned, be separated from carolina. He further states that 
carolina occurs in Key West and that he received it from Gund- 
lach, supposedly from Cuba. Rehn and Hebard have also re- 
corded carolina from Key West. 
Stagmomantis tolteca Sauss., 1861, is listed from Texas and 
southward by Kirby. In 1871 Saussure considered it a variety 
of carolina, but it is now generally given specific rank. It is 
figured in Miss. Mex. Orthoptera, 1872. 
In the collection of the United States National Museum the 
following four species from the United States have been recog- 
nized by Mr. Caudell: Stagmomantis carolina Linn., in the brown 
phase, and its green variety wrorata Linn.; S. limbata Hahn 
(1835), from the southwestern states, having the costal campus 
of the tegmina broader than in carolina; S. gracilipes Rehn, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila., 1907, p. 67, from Arizona, and S. 
californica Rehn and Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila., 
1900, p. 416. ; 
EXPLANATION OF PLaTe I. 
Fic. 1. Stagmomantis floridensis Davis. Type. 
Fic. 2. Stagmomantis floridensis Davis. Allotype. 
Fic. 3. Stagmomantis carolina (Linneus). From Florida. 
