94 BRITISH ORTHOPTERA. 



in their development, but they do not reach the tip 

 of the abdomen. The legs are well armed with spines, 

 the femora included ; the pulvilli are minute. Type 

 of the genus JJldtta orientalis Limn., the only European 

 species. 



1. Blatta orientalis Linn. 



(Plate VII, fig. 5; PI. X, figs. 3 and 4; and fig. 16 



in text.) 



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



no. 7 1758 Blatta. 



,, LINN. Faun. Suec. (ed. ii), p. 234, 



no. 862 1761 Blatta. 



SERV. Ann. Sci. Nat. xxi, p. 29 . 1831 Kakerlac. 



BURM. Haiidb. Eiit. ii, p. 504, no. 5 . 1838 Periplaneta. 



FISCHER de W. Orth. Ross. p. 70, 



pi. 24, ff. 1-3 ... . IS^Stylupyga. 



BRUNNER Nouv. Syst. Blatt. p. 226 1865 Periplaneta. 



BRUNNER Prod. Enr. Orth. p. 49 . 1882 Periplaneta. 

 MIALL & DENNY Struc. and Life- 



hist. of the Cockroach . . . 1886 Periplaneta. 

 ELAND SHAW Syn. Brit. Orth. in 



Ent. Mo. Mag. p. 371 . . . 1889 Periplaneta. 

 FINOT Faune de la Fr. Orth. p. 83. 



f. 49 1889 Periplaneta, 



BURR Brit. Orth., p. 24, pi. ii, f. 5 . 1897 Blatta. 



Orientalis KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. i, p. 136 . 1904 Blatta. 



orientalis BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 16 . 1910 Blatta. 



,, SHELFORD Gen. Ins. Fasc. 109, p. 15 1910 Blatta. 



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



36, pi. iii, ff. 5, 5 a . . 1915 Blatta. 



(Other synonyms are: B. hicifuga Frisch. ; B. culinaris de Geer; 

 B.ferrugineofusca Groiiovius; B.ferruginea Thimberg ; K.castanea 

 Blanchard ; K. platystetho Philippi ; B. badia Sanssure ; P. iateralis 

 Walker.) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



orientalis 7. B. ferrugineo-fusca elytris sulco oblongo impresso. Fn. 



svec. 617. 



Habitat in America, hospitatur in Oriente : imprimis in 



jarina, Pane etc. liodie in Russia? adjacentibits region- 



ibus frequens ; incepit nuperis temporibus Hohni;t j , uti 



dudum in Finlandia. Consumit Panem, cibaria, calceos 



etc. lucifuga. 



(C. Linnseus, ' Systema NaturaB,' i, p. 424, 1758.) 



862. BLATTA orientalis ferrugineo-fusca, elytris sulco oblongo 



irnpressis. Fn. 617. 

 Fennoitibiis Torraka. Dracan. 

 Habitat in Molendinis, prsesertim in fumosis hypocaustis 



Finnorum (Pyrten), ubi devastat panes, ocreas, et varia 



