BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS OF COCKROACHES — ROTH & WILLIS I4I 



Family CUPRESSACEAE 



Cupressus macrocarpa Hartweg 



Associate. — Diploptera punctata, Hawaii (Hebard, 1922) : "The 

 species is common and injurious in the territory infesting particularly 

 the Monterey cypress trees . . . and doing particular damage by 

 gnawing away the bark." Similar injury has been cited by Pember- 

 ton (1934), FuUaway and Krauss (i945)» and Zimmerman (1948). 



Juniperus sp. 

 Associate. — Phyllodromica tartara nigrescens, Southern Uzbekistan 

 (Bei-Bienko, 1950) : Under bark. 



Family PANDANACEAE 

 Freycinetia sp. 

 Associate. — Graptoblatta notulata and Kuchinga remota, Tahiti 

 (Hebard, 1933). 



Pandanus sp. 

 Associate. — Hololeptoblatta sp., Seychelles (Scott, 1910, 1912). 



Family GRAMINEAE 

 Aristida pennata Trin. 



Associate. — Phyllodromica pygmaea, IJ .S.S.R. (Bei-Bienko, 1950) : 

 Found in the dense turf. 



Bamboo 

 Associate. — Comptolampra liturata, Malaya (Karny, 1925). 



Chloris gayana Kunth 



Associate. — Blattella vaga, Texas (Riherd, 1953) : This field cock- 

 roach was rather abundant in clumps of Rhodes grass. 



Panicum purpurascens Raddi 



Synonymy. — Panicum barbinodc [H^itchcock, 1936]. 

 Associate. — Epilampra abdonien-nigrum, Puerto Rico (Sein, 1923; 

 Wolcott, 1936) : Abundant in "malojillo" meadow. 



Saccharum officinarum Linnaeus 



Associates. — Balta qttadricaudata, Balta scripta, Balta torresiana, 

 Balta verticalis, Ellipsidion simulans, and Megamareta verticalis, Aus- 

 tralia, Queensland (Hebard, 1943) : All collected by J. F. Illingworth 

 on sugarcane. 



