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PLATE CCCCLVII. 
BLATTA MADER. 
MADEIRA COCK ROACH. 
HEMIPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head inflected: antenne fetaceous: feelers unequal, and filiform : 
wing-cafes and wings fmooth, and fomewhat coriaceous : thorax rather 
flat, orbicular, and margined : legs formed for running: abdomen ter- 
minated in four fpines or briftles. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Brown: thorax livid variegated with brown: wing-cafes pale livid, 
the extreme half marked with numerous tranfverfe brown lines. 
Buatta Maper#: fufca thorace elytrifque lividis fufco variegatis. 
Fabr. Ent Syft. T. 2. p. 6. 119. 2. 
A large fpecies of the cock roach tribe which inhabits the ifland of 
Madeira, and from whence it has been lately introduced into this — 
country with goods and merchandize as the common cock roach 
( Blatta ortentalis) was originally from the eaftern parts of the world. 
The fpecies has not yet become common in England. Our fpecimen 
was taken by Mr. Stachbury. 
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