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extent as P. australasiss. Yorkshire: Goole (Burr) ; Keighley 

 (B utter field) -, Bradford and Huddersfield (Porritt). 



WALES. Glamorgan : Swansea, brought to H. R. Wakefield 

 on 4 Jan. 1917 from Pentre Pit (depth not known) ; the colliers 

 call them " pit beetles"; they are abundant in the colliery 

 workings. 



SCOTLAND. " The only place in which I have met with this 

 large species, to which the name of " Ship Cockroach ' has 

 been applied, is in the palm house of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden in Edinburgh, where, in July 1879, I obtained 

 several. One which I still possess has been shown to Mr. 

 Burr, who confirms my identification. I have heard of its 

 occurrence elsewhere in Edinburgh or Leith." (W. Evans, 

 f Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist.' Jan. 1901.) [Apparently they have 

 since disappeared from the Gardens.] 



IRELAND. Belfast : (fide Kemp). Dublin : abundant in a 

 soap factory (Carpenter). 



2. Periplaneta australasise Fabr. 



(Plate VII, fig. 7; PL IX, fig. 2; PL XI, fig. 2; and 



figs. 11 and 17 in text.) 



australasise FABR. Syst. Ent. p. 271. n. 5 . 1775 Blatta. 



BURM. Handb. Ent. ii, p. 503, 11. 4 . 1838 Periplaneta. 

 BRUNNER Nouv. Syst. Blatt. p. 233, 



n. 11 1865 Periplaneta. 



ELAND SHAW Syn. Brit. Orth. in Ent. 



Mo. Mag. p. 371 . . . 1889 Pe rip Ian et a. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 26, pi. ii, f. 7 . 1897 Periplaneta. 



Australasia? KIREY Syn. Cat. Orth. i, p. 141. . 1904 Periplaneta. 

 australasise MANGAN Mth. pts. of some Blattidae 



(Proc. Roy. Irish. Acad.) pis. i-iii . 1908 Periplaneta. 



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



SHELFORD Gen. Ins. Fasc. 109, p. 1 18 1910 Periplaneta. 

 LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. p. 37, 



pi. ii, ff. 7, 7 a . . . . 1915 Periplaneta. 



SHELFORD Nat. in Borneo, p. 115 



et. seqq. ...... 1916 Periplaneta. 



(Other synonyms are : B. doming ensis Beauvois ; P. zonata de Haan ; 

 P. repanda Walker ; P. subcincta Walk. ; P. inclusa Walk. ; P. 

 emittens Walk. ; Polyzosteria subornata Walk, (nymph).) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



Blatta australasise. 



5. B. ferruginea, thorace atro ; annulo albo, elytris basi lineola alba. 

 Capta frequens in nave e mari pacifico et regionibus incognitis rever- 

 tente. 



