116 BRITISH ORTHOPTERA. 



CASUAL COCKROACHES. 



Quite a large number of species of cockroaches are known to have 

 occurred as casuals in Britain. Far the greater part no doubt of those 

 which are seen at all meet an untimely fate beneath the heel of the first 

 observer, and of those which are preserved many probably have never 

 been recorded, or the records have escaped my notice. So the some- 

 what lengthy list that follows is scarcely likely to be by any means 

 exhaustive. It is quite possible, too, that the identification of even 

 these is not always reliable. So far as can be seen, none seem likely 

 to establish themselves here, so their occurrences and the list of them 

 are really of very little importance. These cockroaches, in fact, cannot 

 in any sense be looked upon as British insects. Apparently the most 

 frequently occurring are Ehyparobia maderx Fabr. and some of the 

 green Pancklorx P. exoleta Biirm. and one or two other species, not 

 easily distinguished from the last or from one another. An example of 

 the former a casual which I received alive escaped for a time and 

 deposited between some papers an ill-formed ootheca. At present my 

 list of casuals is : 



Ischnoptera strigosa Schaum. (= natalensis Wlk.). One imported to 

 Kew Gardens (Lucas). 



Nyctibora holosericea Burm. (figured in ' Entomologist,' 1900, p. 3). 

 One from Ship Canal, Manchester, exhibited at Lane, and dies. Ent. 

 Soc., 19 March 1906 (Sopp) ; one captured at Kew, June 1904 (Sopp) ; 

 one in Mansfield Market-place, 28 February 1907 (Daws) ; one, Coveiit 

 Garden, 6 July 1897, figured in 'Entomologist,' 1900, p. 3 (Burr)- a 

 nymph (probably) brought to Mr. Daws of Mansfield, April 1908. 



Nyctibora brunnea Thunb. Bradford Market, Yorkshire, one 

 (Carter). 



Nyctibora sericea Burm. One, Saiidowii, Isle of Wight, 1906 

 (Taylor). 



Heminyctobora truncata Sauss. & Z. One [? Barnsley] (Bay ford}. 



Phoraspis leucogramma Perty. Liverpool Docks (Sopp). 



Epilampra caraibsea Sauss. & Z. A male from Queen's Square, 

 Liverpool, received by Sopp, July 1902 (Sopp). 



E. burmeisteri Guer. One, November 1905, and one, January 1906, 

 from the Ship Canal Docks, Manchester (Sopp). 



E. grisea de Geer. Louth, Lincolnshire (Carter). 



Dorylsea rhombifolia Stoll. (= Stylopyga decorata Brun.). One. 

 Worksop, 20 March 1902 (Shaw) ; a living nymph, which had partly 

 eaten another, given me by H. Main, 8 Sept. 1904 ; it came in a sugar- 

 vessel from Java (Lucas) ; one, Natural History Museum, S. Kensing- 

 ton, 16 November 1907 (Kirby). 



Eurycotis finschiana Sauss. & Z. Louth, Lincolnshire (Carter). 



Rhyparobia maderae Fabr. (figured in 'Entomologist,' 1896, p. 169).- 

 Several specimens observed in the streets of Plymouth about 20 years 

 since [note written 1903] having flown from a ship in the Great Western 

 Railway Docks (Bignell) ; one, found by H. O. Dixon in a desk at 

 Coveiit Garden, Sept. 1900 (Lucas) ; one, taken at Chelsea, 1894 (Briggs) ; 

 one, taken at Covent Garden, Nov. 1895 (Briggs) ; one, Bermondsey, 

 16 June 1896 (Tutt) ; EnfieldPool, August 1907 (Camb. Univ. Museum) ; 

 one, Surbiton, 17 February 1908 (Lucas) ; several imported into Derby 

 with fruit : specimens in Derby Museum (Pullen) ; Hoyland Common, 

 near Barnsley, Yorkshire, alive amongst onions, 10 September (Dyson) ;. 

 Bradford, Yorkshire, one in an orchid-house (Carter). 



