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It then seemed to be commonly known as the mill beetle. The 

 early Dutch called them Kakerlach, and in the Swede settlements 

 they were known as Brodcetare (bread eaters). It is now ver}^ 

 common in houses in the East, but is quite generally distributed, 



Fig. 4.— The Oriental roach (Pcriplwteta orieutaJis): a, female; h, male: c, side view of female 

 d, half-grown specimen— all natural size (original). 



and is the common species even so far removed from the Atlantic 

 seaboard as New Mexico. The characteristics of this insect are 

 shown in the accompanjang illustration (fig. 4). 



The German cockroach, Ectobia {Phyllodromia) germanica, is 

 particularly abundant in Germany and neighboring European coun- 





Fig. 5.— The German roach (Ectohia (lenvauha): a, first stage; h, second stage; c third stage; 

 d, fourth stage; f, adult; /, adult female with egg-case; g, egg-case— enlai-ged; li, adult with 

 wings spread-all natural size except y. (From Riley.) 



tries, but, like most of the other domestic species, has become world- 

 wide in distribution. In this country it is very often styled the 

 Croton bug, this designation coming from the fact, already alluded 

 to, that attention was first prominently drawn to it at the time of 



