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 such a drumming noise, that none but those who are very good sleepers can rest for them. 

 What is most disagreeable, those who have not gauze curtains are sometimes attacked by 

 them in their sleep. The sick and dying have their extremities attacked, and the ends of 

 the toes and fingers of the dead are frequently stripped of both skin and flesh." 



BLATTA (BLABERUS) GIGANTEA. 



Plate XXXVI. fig. 2. 



Order : Orthoptera. Section : Cursoria. Family : Blattidje. 



Genus. Blatta, Linn. ^-c. (Subgenus : Blaberus, Serville.) 



Blatta(Blaberus) Gigantea? Livida, thoracis clypeo maculi\ quadrat^ fusca, capite ferrugineo, elytris vitta 

 fusca longitudinali. (Long. Corp. cum clytvis 2 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Blatta Gigantea'' Linn. Syst. Nat. 1.2. p. GST. \. Fahr. Ent. Syst.'i.G. 1. Serville Bevis. Orthopt. p. 



11. 1. Oliv. Encyl.No. I. 

 Habitat ; Jamaica (Drury). America, Asia (Falrridus). Cayenne (Sen-Ule). 



Head red brown, and withdrawn under the thora.x, which covers it like a hood. Antenna' 

 brown, and shorter than the body. Thorax thin like a scale, and of a dusky livid colour, the middle 

 being brown, almost black. Wings and wing-cases livid and thin ; the latter having a brown streak, 

 half an inch long, running from the shoulders along the middle. Abdomen brown, with two points at 

 the extremity. Legs brown, the shins being full of spines. 



Fabricius, Serville, &c. have referred this figure to the Linnsean Blatta gigantea, with 

 the description of which it indeed corresponds ; although, as Drury observed, it is con- 

 siderably smaller than that species. Drury states that this is one of the species which is 

 very frequent in houses in the West Indies, and is called the Drummer, from the noise it 

 makes by beating against the wainscot. 



BLATTA (POLYPHAGA) iEGYPTIACA? 



Plate XXXVI. fig. 3. 



Order : Orthoptera. Section : Cursoria. Family : Blattidae. 



Genus. Blatta, Linn. §-e. (Subgenus : Polyphaga, BrulU.) 



Blatta (Polyphaga) ^Egyptiaca? Obscure fusca, thoracis margine antico elytrorumque margine externo 

 basali albidis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin. fere.) 



Syn. Blatta .ffigyptiaca ? Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 687. 2. Gronov. Zooph. 637. t. 15. f. 3. Ahrens Fauna Ins 

 Eur.f. I. tab. 13. Fah-. Ent. Syst. 2. p. C. 



Habitat : Jamaica (Drury). Egypt (Linmeus). 



Head and antennae dark brown. Thorax dark brown, and surrounded, except on the hinder side, 

 with a cream-coloured margin. Wings and wing-cases brown and thin, the latter having a cream- 

 coloured streak along the anterior margin, about a quarter of an inch long. Abdomen and legs brown. 

 The thighs and tibiae being furnished with many spines. 



