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more pubescent, the antenrne are piceons instead of black, the 
luteous marginal stripes of the prothorax are longer and broader, and 
extend nearly to the foreborder ; the head is piceous, testaceous about 
the mouth, the pectus and legs are ferruginous, and the abdomen is 
luteous.” 
Fam. Blattidce. 
Epilampra, Burm. 
*E. signatura, Walk. — A medium-sized, grey Cockroach, com- 
monly found in the Jamestown houses and gardens. Mr. Walker 
gives the following description of it ; — “ Female testaceous, fusiform, 
shining. Head with a black band between the eyes, and with a 
broad irregular brown band on the front ; eyes piceous ; antennse 
brown, shorter than the body ; prothorax short conical ; a black 
abbreviated and nearly interrupted stripe on each side ; an incom- 
pletely scutcheon-shaped brown patch in the disk ; sides rounded. 
Abdomen beneath mostly brownish, with a pale testaceous stripe 
along each side. Legs short, stout ; tibiae beset with stout brown 
spines. Eorewings brownish, extending nearly to the tip of the 
abdomen, with a pale testaceous costal stripe, extending to half the 
length from the base. Length of the body twelve lines.” 
Blatta, Linn. 
B. germanica, Linn. Syst. Hat. ii. 688. — A rather small, long, 
thin-shaped, light-coloured Cockroach from the low land. It is rare 
in St. Helena, but has been dispersed from Europe to North 
America, Mexico, Ceylon, and Australia. 
*B. bicincta, Walk. — A very minute Cockroach, easily distin- 
guished by the stripes or bands across it. It is commonly found in 
the houses- and gardens on the low land. Mr. Walker gives the 
following description of it : — “ Female black, elongate, oval, smooth, 
shining, with a white band on the mesothorax and with an inter- 
rupted white band on tbe base of the abdomen. Antennse sub- 
moniliform, rather stout, pale yellow at the base. Legs piceous ; 
knees and tarsi pale yellow. Length of the body two lines.” 
Periplaneta, Burm. 
P. repanda, Walk. Cat. Blatt. 125. — The common red Cock- 
roach is very abundant on the low land, and an occupant of most 
