I wrote this in 11/24/2012.
I caught a big brown adult female Tenodera sinensis recently but I let it go casually by leaving it outside. I thought it would stay and I was going to feed it but the night I caught it she went away. She was bigger than the other two adult females I had, I guess she was 87 or 88mm long (sorry I did not measure her). She was much healthier than the other two I raised from young nymphs. I must be doing something wrong with my mantids.