Catalogue of recently described Coccidae â�� V

OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XVII, 1015 2") taking care of a brood of the large Chinese mantid Paratenodera sinensis Sauss., which had been bred from the eggs in the Insec-tary of the Bureau of Entomology. While the mantid larvae were young and numerous they were kept together in one insect case and frequent cases of cannibalism occurred; but as they grew larger they were separated and kept each one in its own standard Riley insect case; they became quite tame and readily took living lepidopterous larva?, flies, or even pieces of meat held by a pair of forceps. About one dozen reached maturity. One morning one of these was offered a large living sarcophagid fly held by the forceps; the mantid, eagerly grabbing it with its graspers, squeezed some living maggots out of the abdomen of the fly; several of these maggots were eaten by the mantid, two or three crawled out on its chin and were promptly wiped into the mouth. One morning sometime later this mantid was found lying on the sand in the case, alive but weak and as it was picked up three or four full grown fly maggots pushed out through the side of the abdomen; the maggots burrowed into the sand and eventually pupated, but the flies were not reared. Mr. Busck was convinced that these maggots were the ones eaten, by the mantid and that they had passed the mouth parts of the greedy mantid unharmed and had been swallowed alive, and that they in this manner accidentally had become parasitic. CATALOGUE OF RECENTLY DESCRIBED COCCID.*) V. 1 BY E. R. SASSCER, Bureau of Entomology. Since the publication of the Catalogue of Recently Described Coccida? IV, October 19, 1912, l 4 new genera and 103 new species have been described. This makes a total of 3.3 new genera, 9 new subgenera, 643 new species, and 45 new varieties recorded since the appearance of Mrs. Fernald's catalogue in 1903. In preparing these catalogues the cooperation of coccid-ologists is earnestly solicited, especially in adding references which may have been overlooked. 1 This catalogue is believed to be fairly complete to November, 1914, and is the continuation of a series of papers which have hitherto been published by the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, as Technical Series, No. 12, Tart I ; Technical Series, No. 16, Part III; Technical Series, No 16, Part IV; Technical Series, No. 16, Part VI; and Technical Scries, No. 16, Part VII.

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