COLOURED COCKKOACIIES. 289 



there i« one genus, rather widely spread, which has a tolerable 

 amount of colour about it. Paratropes clegans, of South America, 

 is black, striped witli yellow ; while Faratropes onentalis is black, 

 with a yellow edge round the entire body. Faratropes pica, a 

 Brazilian species, has a broad black stripe down the centre of 

 the body, a large yellow spot on either side near the middle, and 

 a similar pair of spots near the thorax. All, however, are not 

 equally gifted with colour, Faratropes mclanaria looking much 

 like our own species, except that it is much blacker, and Para- 

 tropes decipiens, a native of Brazil, being dark, very small, and 

 more like a beetle than a cockroach, a peculiarity from which 

 it has derived its specific nameof decipiens, or " deceptive." 



