REPORT OP THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 



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parrying 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 



Fig. 21 Cuterebra cuniculi: side view; alarva, ventral aspect; bpupa, lateral view; 

 o anterior extremity; d hooks and anterior spiracles of larva — all enlarged. (After Osborn, U. S. 

 dep't agric. div. ent. Bui. 5, n. s. p. 1<>9) 



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 bv 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 1 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 



1 Cornell univ. agric. exp. sta. Bui. 185. 



