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GREAT COCKROACH. 
those who are very good sleepers can rest for them. 
What is most disagreeable, those who have not 
gauze curtains are sometimes attacked by them in 
their sleep ; the sick and dying have their extre- 
mities attacked, and the ends of the toes and fingers 
of the dead are frequently stripped both of the skin 
and flesh.” 
Our common black beetle is of this genus, and 
was originally imported from the East. It is the 
Blatta orientalis of Linnaeus, and is well known in 
this metropolis. 
