INSECTS 



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England during the campaign in the Crimea. Equally well known is the cockroach 

 (Periplaneta orientalis), generally called the black beetle. Indigenous to Asia, 

 it has spread thence all over Europe, and is now found in almost every house. 



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COCKROACHES, ADDLT AMD IMMATURE. 



Hiding by day in walls, under stones and bark, and in all kinds 



of cavities, although not in the human ear, from which their name is 



derived owing to the shape of the wings, earwigs fly about in the dusk, and feed 



on the juices of fruits and flowers, particularly carnations and dahlias. The best 





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THE EARWIG. 



known species is Forficula auricularia, which is about half an inch in length, 

 of a brownish colour, with long hah-less antennae formed of fourteen joints. Much 

 rarer is the lesser earwig (Labia minor), only about half as long, with the end of 



