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used for packing when shipping nursery stock. Egg-masses of 
this species wore obtained in 1903 and l)rought to Connecticut 
but they failed to hatcli" (Walden). "I introduced the 
European Mantis here [Amherst, Mass.] some years ago and car- 
ried specimens througli, in the field, to practical maturity, but 
they did not reappear the following year" (H. T, Fernald). 
