COLOURED COCKROACHES. 289 



there is one genus, rather widely spread, which has a tolerable 

 amount of colour about it. Paratropes eleyans, of South America, 

 is black, striped with yellow ; while Paratropes orientalis is black, 

 with a yellow edge round the entire body. Paratropes pica, a 

 Brazilian species, has a broad black stripe down the centre of 

 the body, a large yellow spot on either side near the middle, and 

 a similar pair of spots near the thorax. All, however, are not 

 equally gifted with colour, Paratropes mclanaria looking much 

 like our own species, except that it is much blacker, and Para- 

 tropes dccipiens, a native of Brazil, being dark, very small, and 

 more like a beetle than a cockroach, a peculiarity from which 

 it has derived its specific nameof decipiens, or " deceptive." 



