Tenodera aridifolia sinensis Saussure
Common name.—Chinese mantis.
Experimental prey.—Nauphoeta cinerea and Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Rilling, personal communication, 1957).
Family GRYLLACRIDIDAE
Diestrammena apicalis Br. v. Wattenwyl
and
Diestrammena japanica Blatchley
Natural prey.—Cockroach eggs, Japan (Asano, 1937): These are questionable records. Asano found D. apicalis and D. japanica beneath his house near several empty cockroach oöthecae which appeared to have been eaten into. He assumed from the condition of the oöthecae and the proximity of the stone crickets that the insects had devoured the cockroach eggs.
Experimental prey.—Eggs of Blattella germanica and Periplaneta japanica, Japan (Asano, 1937): Seven eggs of B. germanica (obtained from an oötheca being carried by a female) and eggs of P. japanica (presumably in oöthecae) were fed to both species of stone crickets in the evening. The eggs were devoured by the next morning.
Order DERMAPTERA