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to the fact that a large proportion of the eggs lie on the ground 
through two winters before hatching. 
Outbreaks could doubtless be checked by spraying with arsen- 
ical poisons the foliage of the woodlands attacked, or by burning 
the leaves lying on the ground and thus destroying the eggs. 
Blatchley's Walking-stick. 
Manomera blatchleyi (Caudell). 
Plate 13, fig. 16-18. 
Bacunculus blatchleyi Caudell, Joum. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 212 (1905). 
This is a slenderer and smaller species than D. femorata, with 
the head distinctly longer than wide, and may be readily recog- 
nized by the characters stated in the Key. Even the egg may be 
distinguished at once by the concentric elliptic pattern of the 
micropylar end (PI. 13, fig. 18), which in D. femorata bears 
numerous punctures of irregular form and position (PI. 13, 
fig. 19). It is brown or green in color, the male paler beneath 
and showing a dusky lateral stripe on the side of the head and 
pronotum. 
Measurements. 
Total length 
Cerci 
Antenna Ant. fern. 
Mid. fem. 
Hind fem. 
Male. . 
.... 62 
2.5 
48 
13 
17.5 
Female. 
.... 74 
3.7 
40-43 16 
14 
18 mm. 
This is a very rare species in New England. The only record is 
that of an adult female in my collection which I caught at Green- 
wich, Ct., August 25, 1892, and which laid eggs after capture. 
Another, an immature specimen of the same sex, without data, 
I think was taken at the same place and time. Originally 
described from Indiana, this species will probably be found at 
many intermediate points after further search. 
