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and Wallingford, Ct., and it has been taken at Orono, Me. Sev- 
eral years ago it was present in some numbers in a conservatory at 
Wellesley, Mass., where together with the Surinam Roach, it was 
Fio. 40. — The Aastralian Roach, Periplaneta australasioB. a, male with spread wings; 6, female; 
c, pupa. All life size. (After Marlatt.) 
particularly obnoxious by gnawing the tender, growing tips of the 
aerial roots of orchids. Trapping and poison exterminated both 
species in a short time. 
Oriental Roach. 
Blatta orientalis Lian^. 
Figs. 33, 41. 
Blatta orientalis Lixne, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 434 (1758). — Harris, 
Treatise, 3ded., p. 145, fig. 66, cf (1862).— Waldex, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. 
Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 57 (1911). 
Periplaneta orientalis Ferxald, Orth. N. E., p. 136 (p. 52 of sep.) (1888). 
