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The outer wings of the female are notably shorter than the abdomen. 
The adults are approximately 2 to 3 inches long. 
Stagmomantis floridensis Davis is somewhat more slender and 
longer than S. carolina and is confined to Florida. 
Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn), the bordered mantid, is similar 
in appearance and habits to S. carolina, but is found only in Mexico, 
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. 
The Chinese mantis (7'enodera sinensis Sauss.) was accidentally 
introduced near Philadelphia, Pa., about 1896 from Asia and has 
y. 
TIGURE 13.—A, The Chinese mantis (Venodera s.nensis Sauss.) : A, Adult, about 
natural size; B, egg mass. (Courtesy Conn. Agr. Expt. Sta.) 
become quite widely distributed from that source, mainly by intro- 
duction. ‘The eggs survive the winters along the coast of the more 
northern States, ‘but inland the climate apparently is too severe. It is 
a very elongate and robust insect measuring approximately 4 inches 
in length (fie. 13). The females are green or greenish-yellow and 
the males are either of the same hue or “wholly brown or brown with 
the margins of the outer wings green. 
Tenodera angustipennis Sauss. is another oriental mantid, first dis- 
covered in the United States near Vandyke, Del., in 1930. it has be- 
come well established there and will no doubt spread to other localities. 
It is very similar to 7’. sinensis but is somewhat more slender and 
smaller, 
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