REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 Vas}5) 
panying figure gives a very good idea of the appearance of this 
grub. An examination of one, with even.a common hand lens, 
will show that its dark brown color is due to a multitude of 
pointed, chitinous pyramids, which literally cover the nearly 
white skin, and one has only to imagine such a creature work- 
ing about in a sore, to obtain some idea of the pain inflicted. 
The parent fly is about the size of a bumblebee and much re- 
sembles that insect. It has a black head, yellow brown hairs 
on the dorsum of the thorax, yellow hairs:on the first segment 
Fie. 27 Cuterebra cuniculi: side view; alarva, ventral aspect; bpupa. lateral view; 
-eanterior extremity; dhooks and anterior spiracles of larva —all enlarged. (After Osborn, U.S. 
-dep’t agric. div. ent. Bul. 5,n.s. p. 119) 
of the abdomen and the remaining segments of a blue-black 
color. It is represented in the accompanying figure. 
European praying mantis, Mantis religiosus Linn. This 
beneficial insect was discovered by Mr Atwood in 1899 at Roch- 
ester N. Y., where it had undoubtedly been brought on imported 
nursery stock. Several notices of the introduction of this in- 
‘sect have been published by Prof. M. V. Slingerland, who has 
also issued an interesting bulletin! on this species. It has now 
become quite abundant in Rochester, and last spring an effort 
was made, through the kind cooperation of Mr Atwood, who 
sent 227 egg clusters, to introduce this beneficial insect into 
*Cornell uniy. agric. exp. sta. Bul. 185. 
