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INSECT MISCELLANIES. 



carefully over it both with its teeth and its tongue for 

 this purpose ; the whole resembling- not a little the 

 chewini^ of the eud*. 



The family of the cockroaches (Blattidce, Ste- 

 phens) appear to be still more voracious than the 

 preceding. A small species (^Blatta Lapponica^ 



Giant cockroach ^Blatta gujantea), reduced in bize, 

 * J. R. 



