BLA-TTELLA GEKMANICA. 93 



(Imnis). Yorkshire: Bradford, numerous in warehouses 

 (Carter) ; Leeds, since 1855 in one baker's shop (Miall) ; 

 Doncaster, swarming in a house (Corbett) ; on one occasion 

 abundant in rotting hides from India, at a tannery in 

 Doncaster (Corbett) ; Barn si ey, one (Bay ford) ; abundant in 

 a grocer's shop at Sheffield (Bayford). 



WALES. Glamorgan : Swansea, swarming at a Church 

 Army shelter (Wa~kefield). 



SCOTLAND. --Evans says ( ( Annals of Scott. Nat. Hist/ Jan. 

 1901: "In 1897 I obtained two or three dozen examples 

 of this small cockroach from a hotel in George Street, 

 Edinburgh, as recorded in this magazine for 1899 (p. 117) ; 

 and Dr. R. S. MacDougall informs me he got it sent from a 

 restaurant in the town three years ago. Its occurrence, in 

 abundance, in a newspaper office, Glasgow, in 1880, was 

 recorded by Professor Trail in the ( Scottish Naturalist J the 

 following year (vol. vi, p. 14)." 



IRELAND. Dublin : Rathmines (fide Kemp) ; Gardens of 

 Zoological Society, Phoenix Park (fide Kern]}). Down : 

 Strabane (fide Kemp}. Kildare : Kildare (Hope Department, 

 Oxford). Armagh : Poyntzpass (Johnson). 



Genus 3. BLATTA Linn. 



Blatta LINN. Syst. Nat. (ed. x), i, p. 424 . 1758. 



Kakerlac LATE,. Gen. Crustac. et Ins . 1808. 



Kakerlac LATR. Fnm. Nat. Regne Anim. p. 411 . . 1825. 



Steleopyga FISCH. de W. Bull. Mosc. vi, pp. 356, 366 . . 1833. 



Stylopyga FISCH. de W. Orth. Ross. p. 68 . . 1846. 



Stylopyga BRUNNER, Nouv. Syst, Blatt, p. 222 . . 1865. 



193. BLATTA. Caput inclinatnm. 



Antenna setaceae. 



Elytra Alseque planae, subcoriacese. 

 Thorax planiusculus, orbiculatus, marginatus. 

 Pedes cursorii. 



Comicula duo supra caudam. 

 (C. Linnseus, ' Systema Naturae,' torn, i, p. 424, 

 1758.) 



(Linnaeus adds as a footnote " Blattse lucifugae cum Larvis 

 suis rodimt cibaria, coria, putridaque varia, celeri cursu 

 se subtrahentes." He gives nine species: 1. gigantea, 

 2. 89gyptiaca, 3. surinamensis, 4. americana, 5. nivea, 

 6. africana, 7. orientalis, 8. lapponica, 9. oblongata.) 



Iii this genus the sexes are unlike. Antennge are 

 long and hairlike, and the pronotum does not cover 

 the top of the head. Elytra and wings are variable 



