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trees. Curtis found it on fern in the New Forest 

 and on white-thorns near Reading. Gr. T. Lyle 

 swept a male from rushes in a damp spot on a New 

 Forest heath. Linnaeus (see above, p. 75) credits 

 this cockroach with eating the dried fish of the Lap- 

 landers. It often comes at night to the lepidopterist's 

 " sugar. ' : Whether it finds the bait by flight, or not, 

 I cannot say. This is quite likely, for Curtis notes 

 that he took it on the wing ; and at Aldridge Hill in 

 the New Forest, on 30 July 1909, I captured one, 

 which readily took to flight before it was secured. 

 This, I believe, was the first time I saw a cockroach fly. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -Not infrequent in northern and 

 central Europe- -England, Denmark, Norway, Lapland, 

 Finland, Holland, Belgium, France (chiefly northern), 

 Austria. In southern Europe (Spain, etc.) it becomes 

 less common and is more a mountain insect on Mt. 

 Etna for instance, and the mountains of Bosnia and 

 Herzegovina. 



BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



ENGLAND. Berks : (Hamm.) ; near Reading (Curtis) ; Sun- 

 ning Hill (Hope Coll. Oxon); Bagley Wood (probably); most 

 woods in the county (Holland). Devon* : Exeter and Torquay 

 (Bracken); Aldermaston, 26 June 1908 (Tomlin). Essex-: 

 Bpping Forest, often comes to "sugar" (W. Cole, from E. N. 

 Buxton's 'Epping Forest/ 7th ed. 1905, p. 94). Hants : New 

 Forest, sometimes abundant (Lucas, etc.) ; Pamber Forest 

 (Tomlin) ; Parkhurst Forest, Isle of Wight (Morey). Surrey : 

 Downs near Horsley, Gomshall, etc., on left bank of Mole 

 (Ashdown); Ockham Common (Lucas) ; Albury and Byfleet 

 (Burr) ; Oxshott, 2 females, 13 Sept. 1902 (South) ; Leather- 

 head (Briggs); Dorking (Chittij); Haslemere (Shaw); Devil's 

 Punch Bowl, Hindhead (Lucas); Peaslake (Carr). Sussex: 

 near Cocking, beaten from trees (Burr) ; Slindon Wood, 

 Eartham, and Dane Wood (Guermonprez) . (An example from 

 Birkenhead Docks (Cheshire), and several from a dock at 

 Bootle (Lancashire) must be looked upon as accidental 

 importations.) 



* A specimen in 1877, recorded by Parfitt as taken in the vaults of the 

 City Bank, Exeter, was no doubt Blattella, germanica. 



