38 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I4I 



Balta torresiana 

 Australia. — From leaves, under bark, from sugarcane (Hebard, 

 1943)- 



Balta verticalis 

 Australia. — In leaves, from tree, from sugarcane (Hebard, 1943). 



Blaberus atropus 

 Trinidad. — Female in rotting log (Princis and Kevan, 1955). 



Blaberus discoidalis 



Jamaica. — Under dead coconut petioles in open spot. Gundlach 

 found it under stones in a field in Cuba (Rehn and Hebard, 1927). 



Blaberus giganteus 

 Trinidad. — Nymph in rotten palm tree (Princis and Kevan, 1955)- 



Blaberus spp. 



Venezuela. — Only taken in the forests of the Orinoco near the 

 trunks of rotten trees at night (Doumerc in Blanchard, 1837). 



Panama. — Among dead leaves and debris on floor of rain forest 

 (E. C. Williams, Jr., 1941). 



Blatta lateralis 



U.S.S.R. — Found among rocks at 2,000 or more meters elevation. 

 It is found in cultivated areas as well as in mountainous landscapes 

 and in semideserts (Bei-Bienko, 1950). 



Blatta orientalis 



Great Britain. — One female nymph under bark of tree 10 feet above 

 the ground (Burr, 1900). Swarming within a rubbish heap in Feb- 

 ruary (Lucas, 1912). In refuse tip under old sacks and sheets of 

 linoleum (Hallett in Lucas, 1922). Male under bark of oak far from 

 houses (Donisthorpe, 1918). One adult female and nymph in prone 

 dead elm 50 yards from house (Burr, 1937). An immature male at 

 the roots of Ballota nigra (Buck in Gardner, 1954). Four additional 

 records of this species outdoors aw^ay from houses (Lucas, 1920). 



Southern Crimea. — Under stones, dead leaves, and detritus in small 

 copses of Quercus puhescens, Carpinus orientalis, Cornus mas, Pali- 

 urus aculeatus, and Dictamnus fraxinella; 19 specimens, apparently 

 breeding outdoors (Adelung, 1907). 



