92 BRITISH OBTHOPTEttA. 



BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



At the present time B. germanica is well established in a 

 number of localities chiefly in bakeries, warehouses, hotels, 

 restaurants, Zoological Gardens, and other similar places. It 

 is probable that the following list is very far from exhaustive, 

 and from some of the places mentioned it may since have 

 disappeared. Further, it lias not always been put on record 

 whether the examples cited were settled colonists or merely 

 chance visitors. 



ENGLAND. Berks : neighbourhood of Radley College 

 (Burr). Cambridge: Cambridge (Harmer, University 

 Museum). Cheshire: Birkenhead, Borough Hospital (Holt) 

 Birkenhead, docks (Prince) ; Birkenhead, two bakeries 

 (Sopp) ; Hoylake, scarce (Sopp) ; West Kirby, in profusion 

 in a restricted area (Sop2^). Cumberland : Carlisle, Carr's 

 Biscuit Works and elsewhere (Day). Derbyshire ; Derby, 

 where it was breeding (Pulleii). Devon: a Plymouth 

 restaurant, 1895 (Bracken) ; many houses in Plymouth 

 (Bignell & Keys). Hants: Portsmouth, Central Hotel 

 (Colthrup). Isle of Wight : Shanklin, one in a house, 

 another in a grocery store (Poole). Kent : Dover and 

 Ramsgate (Sopp) Cheriton (Burr) Isle of Sheppey, and 

 Woolwich Barracks (Porritt) ; Blackheath, swarming in an 

 old house (Lucas). Lancashire : Bolton, common in a cotton 

 mill (Midgley) ; Bootle, North docks (Sopp) ; Liverpool, 

 abundant (Sopp), Hanover Street (Elliott), in profusion in 

 cellars in Clayton Square (Sopp), warehouses in Brunswick 

 and other docks (Sopp) ; Manchester, in restaurants and the 

 monkey-house at Belle Vue (Chappell) ; Oldhnm, in a cotton- 

 mill (Chappell) Warrington, from Walker's Brewery (Warr. 

 Municipal Mus.) Preston (Chappell) Didsbury, imago and 

 nymphs, house, 1915 (Dixon). Lincolnshire : Lincoln (Mason). 

 London : Zoological Gardens (Shaio) ; cellar in Shoe Lane 

 (Chitty) Natural History Museum, S. Kensington (Morlet/) ; 

 various restaurants, Queen's Gate Gardens, gravel path at 

 St. Mary's Hospital, " Old Cheshire Cheese''" Fleet Street 

 (Shaw) Admiralty Restaurant, abundant (Buckstone). 

 Norfolk: (Edivttrds). Notts: Mansfield (Sopp). Oxford- 

 shire: Oxford, Randolph Hotel kitchen (Hamm). Surrey: 

 Aldershot (Burr) ; one (probably), a nymph, known to have 

 come to Kew Gardens with plants from India, 1897 (Lucas). 

 Sussex: Hastings, hotels (Burr) ; Bognor, common in houses 

 (Carter) Eastbourne (Burr). Warwickshire : Birmingham, 

 two in packing-ease a female with ootheca, and a nymph 



