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carefully over it both with its teeth and its tongue for 

 this purpose ; the whole resembling not a little the 

 chewing of the cud.* 



The family of the cockroaches (Blatiidcd, Ste- 

 phens) appear to be still more voracious than the 

 preceding. A small species {Blatta Lapjjonicay 



Giant cockroach (Blatta gigantea), reduced in aize, 

 * J. R. 



