408 THE ENTOMOLOGICAL FAUNA OF NAURU ISLAND, 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Family Forficulid^e. 



Chelisoches morio Fabr. 



This earwig is common to many of the Pacific islands. It is 

 slender, shining, and black, measuring up to an inch in length, 

 with the antennae and apical segments of the abdomen shaded 

 with reddish-brownj the forceps long, slender, and toothed in 

 the male. 



Kirby* gives the range Otaheite, India to New Guinea. Dr. 

 Burr, to whom I am indebted for the identification, says — 

 "This species is exceedingly abundant and widely distributed 

 throughout the Oriental regions." It is very common in the 

 Pacific Islands, abundant in the Sandwich Islands; and is spread- 

 ing artificially, as I have specimens from East Africa; and it has 

 been taken in Kew Gardens. During my recent visit to the 

 Solomon Islands I found it very plentiful upon the trunks of 

 the young coconut palms, sheltering under the bases of the leaf- 

 stalks, 



Anisolabris annulipes Luc. 



This is another cosmopolitan species, ranging from Europe, 

 across India, to the Islands of the Pacific. The specimens were 

 immature, but Dr. Burr says they belong to this species. 



Family B l a T T i D iE . 

 Periplaneta AUSTRALASiiE Fabr, 



This cosmopolitan species was described from Australia in 

 1775; it is comparatively rare in this country, but is the common 

 domestic cockroach of Florida, and other of the Southern States. 

 It has a wide range over the Pacific Islands. 



Pycnoscelus surinamensis Linn, 



Originally described from Surinam, it has since been redescribed 

 under half a dozen other specific names. Mr. Shelford says of 



* Brit. Mus, Cat. Orthoptera, i., p. 33. 



