. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Insects. BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Vol. XIII October, 1918 No. 4 INTRODUCTION OF PAL^ARCTIC PREYING MANTIDS INTO THE NORTH ATLANTIC STATES. By Wm. T. Davis, Staten Island, N. Y. In Entomological News for June, 1898, there is a short account by Philip Laurent of the capture of a female mantis, Tenodera sinensis (Saussure), in the garden of Mr. Joseph Hindermeyer, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, October 16, 1897. A plate made from a photograph of the insect accompanies the article. From this time on we find as many as twenty-six ref
. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Insects. BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Vol. XIII October, 1918 No. 4 INTRODUCTION OF PAL^ARCTIC PREYING MANTIDS INTO THE NORTH ATLANTIC STATES. By Wm. T. Davis, Staten Island, N. Y. In Entomological News for June, 1898, there is a short account by Philip Laurent of the capture of a female mantis, Tenodera sinensis (Saussure), in the garden of Mr. Joseph Hindermeyer, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, October 16, 1897. A plate made from a photograph of the insect accompanies the article. From this time on we find as many as twenty-six references to the species in the pages of Entomological News. The insect ap- pears to have spread from Meehan's nursery, where the egg masses were found by Ella Jacobs in March, 1898, and Mr. Laurent presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia two females taken in Meehan's nursery, Germantown, in 1898. Mr. Laurent states in the News for 1899, page 273, that he received his first specimens from the nursery in 1896. The egg masses are reported as being in great abundance at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, in the fall of 1900. At a meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held November 20, 1901, Professor J. B. Smith recorded Tenodera sinensis from Elizabeth, New Jersey, but could not find any egg masses. On page 62, Vol. XIII, 1902, Mr. Laurent states that he had gathered about half a barrel of egg masses of Tenodera at Mt. Airy, and that the insect preferred blackberry and briar bushes as a place of abode, and avoided low ground with low herbage. The egg masses of this beneficial insect were given to several entomologists, who distributed them over various parts of New Jersey, and in 1908 H. W. Wenzel found many specimens in sev-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brooklyn Entomological
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