taken in Belfast, probably in a warehouse, and Mr. MacLachlan 

 apparently thought this was its first record for Britain. Mr. C. W. 

 Dale, however, had one, which he said was taken at Sherborne in 

 1839. It has been found very plentifully in the houses at Kew 

 Gardens, and in Swanmore Park Gardens at Bishop's Waltham in 

 Hants, and has been reported from other places. It has been 

 frequently mentioned as occurring in orchid houses, where ap- 

 parently it is harmful to the plants. As regards its distribution the 

 following localities have been recoi-ded : — Britain, Belgium, Sweden, 

 Madeira, Florida, St. Thomas, Sumatra, Java, Australia, West 

 Indies, Colombia, Brazil, and Central America. 



Leucophaea surinamensis, Linn., though larger than B. <ier- 

 manica is a comparatively small cockroach of a very dark colour; the 

 wings, however, when spread are found to be nearly transparent and 

 of a ruddy-brown tinge. The pronotum is black with pale anterior 

 border. Elytra and wings are fully developed; the former have a 

 pale line along the anterior part of the costal margin. Length of 

 male is about 14mm., of female 14-5mm. to 18mm. It was first 

 recorded for Britain apparently by Burr (" Ent. Mo. Mag.," 2nd 

 ser., viii., p. 14), Mr. H. L. F. Guermonprez having sent him one 

 of two, taken in a house at Bognor, and supposed to have been im- 

 ported from Madeira in bananas. In 1897 (April 15th) I received 

 two — an imago and a nymph — from Kew Gardens, and in 1898 

 (June 9th) 1 received another nymph from the same place. No 

 further notices of the insect appeared till 1904, when on October 

 17th, the species (found breeding amongst turfs at Faliowfield, 

 Manchester) was exhibited at the meeting of the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Entomological Society. The same year, on December 

 30th, one was caught in Liverpool Docks, apparently introduced 

 amongst grain from San Francisco. In 1906 a specimen was caught 

 in the market at Bradford, Yorkshire. In 1907 it was found to be 

 firmly established in a hothouse in Lister Park, Manningham. By 

 the same year it was breeding and had become abundant in the 

 Tropical Houses at Kew Gardens. In 1909 I received one found 

 crawling about on Christmas Day in a hot-house at Bishopstoke, 

 Hants. One would gather from this that the date of first appear- 

 ance of L. Hurinaineiuis in Britain was just prior to 3 897. However, 

 Prof. Westwood's Economic Cabinet in the Hope Museum at Oxford 

 carries the date back at least till 18G8. Specimens there are credited 

 with eating plants and stove fruits in house (April, 1868) and 

 destroying orchids (March, 1869). There are also some specimens 

 and an undated letter to Prof. Westwood, asking for name and for 

 advice as to getting rid of insects from a pine-house. The writer, 

 referring to a trap, says : — " I have in this manner destroyed tens 

 of thousands, and yet at this moment the plunging material is 

 literally alive with them." L. tiKrinanwiisis is a cosmopolitan species, 

 found at least in Britain, Paris (Jardin des Plantes), Mexico, British 



