TERIPLANETA AMERICANA. 101 



1. Periplaneta americana Linn. 



(Plate VI, figs. 3-6 ; PL VII, fig-. 6 ; PL IX, fig. 1 ; 



PL XI, fig. L) 



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



n. 4 . . . . . . 1758 Blatta. 



SERV. Ann. Sci. Nat, xxii. p. 39 . 1831 Kakerlac. 



BTJRM. Haiidb. Ent. vol. ii, p. 503 . 1838 Periplaneta. 

 BRUNNER Nouv. Syst. Blatt. p. 232. 



pi. v, f. 24 . 1865 Periplaneta. 

 BRUNNER Prod, der Ear. Orth. p. 



50, pi. i, f. 11 . . . . IS82 Periplaneta. 



ELAND SHA\Y Syn. Brit. Orth. in 



Ent. Mo. Mag. p. 371. f. 2 . . 1889 Periplaneta. 



FINOT Fiiune de la Fr.. Orth. p. 83 . 1889 Per iplaneta. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 26, pi. ii, f. 6 . 1897 Periplaneta. 



Americana KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. i, p. 140 . 1904 Periplaneta. 



americana SHELFORD Gen. Ins. Fasc. 109. p. 18 1910 Periplaneta. 



BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 17 . 1910 Periplaneta. 



LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. 



p. 37, pi. iii, f. 6, (>a . . . 1915 Periplaneta. 



(Other synonyms are : B. kakkerlac De G-eer ; B. aureluinensis Four- 

 croy ; B. sicdfolia Stoll ; B. a n ,-a ntiaca Stoll ; P. stolida Walker.) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



americana, 4. B. ferrnginea, thoracis clypeo postice exalbido. 

 Habitat in America. 



Major B. orientali, sed simillima. Elytra Alxqne 

 corpore longiores. Antennae lonyte. 



(C. Linnaeus, ' Syst. Nat.' torn, i, p. 424, 1758.) 



MALE IMAGO (PL IX, fig. 1).-- General colour bright 

 sienna-brown. Length about 35 mm. Antenna 3 - much 

 longer than the body. Pronotum mottled, in a ring- 

 within the margin, with lighter brown. Elytra some- 

 what pointed at the tip ; elytra and wiugs (fig. 15) 

 both longer than the abdomen. Legs bright brown, 

 heavily spined. Supra-anal plate notched, pellucid. 

 Oerci long, tapering, curved after death. Styles long. 



FEMALE IMAGO (PL XI, fig. I).- -Colour and size 

 much as in the male. Wings, in this sex also, longer 

 than the body. Elytra slightly truncate at the tip. 

 Abdomen broader. Cerci more straight and less 



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tapering. Supra- anal plate brown, not pellucid. 



OOTHECA (fig. 13, no. 4).- -Dark brown, with suture 

 dorsal. Those which I possess apparently contain at 



