20 Blattidae — Mantidae — Phasmidae 



Panchlora Burmeister 



p. cubensis Sauss. This beautiful green roach is adventive from tropical America 

 and is usually introduced in bunches of bananas. It is an out-of-door roach 

 and cannot establish itself as far north as NY State. It has been brought to 

 SI in March, Aug, and Dec ; all these four specimens were females. In the 

 Brookl}^ Museum there is a female taken in that city in a bunch of bananas, 

 Jan, 1912. Other records are Albany, Mar (US), and Rochester, Ap, Dcveson. 



Cryptocercus Scudder 



C. punctulatus Scud. This wingless shining black or brownish black roach, occur- 



ring in decayed moist logs in thick woods, is found from southwestern NY 

 to northern Ga. It is found also along the Pacific coast. NY, one juvenile 

 paratype (MCZ). 



Family MANTIDAE 6; Praying Mantes, Soothsayers 



Mantis Linnaeus 



M. religiosa L. Introduced from the Old World. Rochester, Charlotte, Summer- 

 ville, 1899, HFAtzvood, reported in Ent. News, Dec, 1899, by M. V. Slingerland. 

 Apparently now well established about Rochester and Ithaca. Will probably 

 spread slowly. 



Paratenodera Rehn 



P. sinensis Sauss. An Asiatic species, first introduced about 1896 at Meehan's 

 Nursery, Germantown, Pa. It was brought to SI in 1902 and is now abundant 

 in several places. It prefers dry hillsides with cat brier and other tangle. As 

 the insect is beneficial, efforts have been made to establish it elsewhere near 

 NYC. 



Family PHASMIDAE: Walking Sticks 

 DiAPHEROMERA Gray 



D. femorata Say. Yonkers, Bno & Farley ; Ramapo, Oct ; West Pt. ; Ft. Montgomery, 



Aug, Schotf; Monroe, Oct; Milton, Sep, Joutel; Minnewaska, Aug-Sep, Nic ; 

 Allaban, Catskills, Aug, Dozv; Stuyvesant Falls (NYS) ; Albany, Jl, Oct 

 (NYS) ; Keeseville, Lg ; Ithaca, Sep (CU) ; Watertown, Oct (NYS); 

 Rochester, D eve son; Niagara Falls, the type locality (Say). This species is 

 particularly fond of hazel, chestnut, linden, and some oaks. Not reported from 

 SI, but occurs on LI: Orient, 1922, Lath; Shelter I. Elsewhere in the State 

 it appears to be generally distributed, usually occurring in young trees and on 

 bushes. 



Manomera Rehn and Hebard 



M. blatchleyi atlantica Ds. SI is the type locality of this race, or, more likely, 

 distinct species. It is generally distributed over LI, mature individuals being 

 found from Jl 30 to Oct 1. Often on Solidago rugosa as well as other golden- 

 rods and associated plants growing in damp meadows. 



The only other localitv in the State thus far reported is Crotona Pk., Bronx, 

 NYC, Oct 9, Wat. 



No males are known ; females collected from Conn to Va. 



^Adventive species. In addition to Stagmomantis Carolina (L.), which has occasionally been 

 brought to N. Y. from the Southern States, Gonatista phyryganaides {grisea Fab.) and 

 Fhyllorates chlorophaed (Blanch.) are reported by Scudder in his Orthoptera of North America 

 (1868), from N. Y. The type of chlorophaea came from Watertown, but, like grisea, is a southern 

 species. A specimen of Thesprotia graminis (Scud.), collection US, is stated by Caudell (Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1913) to be labeled "N. Y." It too is a southern species. 



