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BLATTELLA GERMANICA. 87 



1. Blattella germanica Linn. 

 (Plate VI, fig. 2 ; PL VII, fig. 4; and fig. 15 in text.) 



germanica LINNJEUS Syst. Nat. ii. p. 688 . 1766 Blatta. 

 yermanicus STEPH. 111. Br. Ent. Mand. vi, p. 



46. 11. 1 ... . 1835Ectobius. 

 germanica "\VfiSTW. Intro. Mod. Class. Ins. I, 



p. 515. f. 51 . . 1839 Ectobia. 



SERV. Orth. p. 107. n. 36 . 1839 PhyUodromia. 

 BRUNNER Nouv. Syst. Blatt. p. 90, 



pi. ii, f. 7 1865 PhyUodromia. 



BRUNNER Prod, der Eur. Orth. p. 



46, pi. i, f. 9 1882 PhyUodromia. 



ELAND SHAW Syn. Br. Orth. p. 370 



(Ent. Mo. Mag.) . . . . 1889Phijllodromia. 

 FINOT Faune de la Fr. Orth. p. 81. 



f. 47 .... . 1889Phijllodromia. 



BURR Br. Orth. p. 23. pi. ii. f. 4 . 1897 PhyUodromia. 



KIRBY Syn. Cat, Orth. i, p. 87 . 1904 PhyUodromia. 



BURR Syn. Orth. W. Europe, p. 16 1910 PhyUodromia. 



BURR Syn. Orth. W. Europe, p. 152 1910 Blattella. 

 LUCAS Proc. S. Loiid. Ent. Soc. p. 



36, pi. iii. f . 4 . . 1915 Blattella. 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



germanica. 9. B. livida, corpore flavescente, thorace lineis duabus 



nigris parallelis. 

 Habitat in Dania. Brunvirhe. 

 Corpus flavescens, maynitudine B. lapponicn'. Thorax 



nti elytra may/'* lirentia : linex* 2 thoracis longi- 



tudiuales, parallels niara'. laliusculae. 

 (C. Linnaeus, ' Syst. Nat.' Ed. xii. torn, i, pars ii, p. 688, 



1766.) 



MALE IMAGO (fig. 15 a). --General coluin 1 nearly 

 uniform dark ochre, or tawny. Length 13-14 mm. 

 Antennas having the appearance of being finely ringed 

 with brown; eyes black. Pwnotnm with two longi- 

 tudinal distinct dark brown streaks, not quite reaching 

 front or hind maro-in, but continued vaguely on meso- 



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and metanotum ; lateral margins of pronoturn almost 

 pellucid. Elijtrn lanceolate, bright ochre in colour, 

 immaculate ; iriiu/x ochreous in costal region, the 

 remainder nearly colourless, nervures darker ; ley* 

 pale ; tip of tibia?, and of tarsi usually, darker. Dorsal 

 surface of abdomen darker, especially along the middle ; 

 cere I of the general colour, rather long. 



