BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS OF COCKROACHES — ROTH & WILLIS 289 



Nasua sp. 

 Natural prey. — Cockroaches, British Guiana (Beebe, 1925a). 



Family MUSTELIDAE 



Meles sp. 



Experimental prey. — Blattella gcrmanica, France (Brumpt and Ur- 

 bain, 1938a) : A badger was successfully infected when fed cock- 

 roaches infested v/ith Prosthenorchis elegans and P. spirula. 



Family VIVERRIDAE 

 Herpestes javanicus auropunctatus Hodgson 



Natural prey. — Epilampra ivheeleri, Eurycotis improcera, Pan- 

 chlora nivea, Pycnoscelus stmnamcnsis, and others unidentified to 

 species, St. Croix and Puerto Rico (Wolcott, 1953) : Based on 37 or 

 more cockroaches obtained from stomachs of 42 mongooses collected 

 in St. Croix (by Seaman) and 56 collected in Puerto Rico (by Pi- 

 mentel). 



Pimentel (personal communication, 1958) has given us the follow- 

 ing percentage occurrence of cockroach species in the total number 

 of mongoose stomachs that he examined in Puerto Rico : Epilampra 

 zvheeleri 1.8, Ischnoptera rufa rufa 3.6, Panchlora nivea 1.8, Peri- 

 planeta americana 1.8, and Pycnoscelus surinamensis 19.6. 



Herpestes sp. 



Natural prey. — Periplaneta americana and Periplancta australasiae, 

 Hawaii (Perkins, 191 3) : Large numbers of these cockroaches are 

 devoured. 



Cockroach, East Africa (Loveridge, 1923) : Cockroach remains 

 found in stomach of mongoose. 



Family FELIDAE 



Felis catus Linnaeus 



Natural prey. — Periplaneta americana, Hawaii (Williams et al., 



1931)- 



Cockroaches, U.S.A., Arizona (Stahnke, personal communication, 



1953)- 



Experimental prey. — Blattella germanica, U.S.A. (Hobmaier, 

 1941) : Cats were fed cockroaches infested with Physaloptera maxil- 

 laris. U.S.A. (Petri and Ameel, 1950) : Cockroaches infested with 

 Physaloptera rara were fed to a kitten. France (Brumpt and Ur- 



