98 ORDER II. Blatta. 



The Blatta avoid the light, and with their 

 larvae, feed upon all kinds of food, but are more 

 particularly fond of bread, meal, putrid bodies, 

 and roots of plants ^ they are frequent in bakers 

 fnops, and in cellars -, they fly the approach of 

 danger with great fwiftnefs ; with us they are 

 called Cockroaches. 



The infect, called the Kakkerlac^ fo well 

 known, and fo much dreaded by the inhabitants 

 of the American Iflands, belongs to this genus* 



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