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Gerstacker's statement that the European fossil cockroaches agree 

 in every distinctive family characteristic with those now living. It 

 seems also proved that the average size of these insects was some- 

 what larger in ancient times. The number of species of palaeozoic 

 cockroaches is upwards of sixty.] 



Znphium americanum. Ptychodes vittata. 



Thalpius dorsalis «fc pygmaeus. Phyton pallidum. 



Dynastes Tityus. Pteroplatus (Sallei) variabilis. 



Megalosoma. ELA.PHAS, male. Callichroma splendidum. 



Body 5 inches long by 2 1116 inch wide. Leptura erythroptera. 

 Sandalus niger. Plectrodera scalator. 



Goes tigrina Acanthociuus nodosus. 



Goes tessalata. Cylas formicarius. 



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