. The book of bugs. The Aristocrat of the Kitchen. The Croton bug- is rather the smallest of the roach population of our houses. He is five-eighths of an inch in length at maturity, is light brown, with two dark brown stripes on his thorax. As becomes an inhabitant of this continent of great things, the Periplaneta auicri- cana is the biggest, though the tropical ' drummer," which beats rhythmically on the woodwork with his wings, is two inches long and measures three inches from tip to tip of his outspread wings. It is said that under the equator there is a con- nection of the family, ve
. The book of bugs. The Aristocrat of the Kitchen. The Croton bug- is rather the smallest of the roach population of our houses. He is five-eighths of an inch in length at maturity, is light brown, with two dark brown stripes on his thorax. As becomes an inhabitant of this continent of great things, the Periplaneta auicri- cana is the biggest, though the tropical ' drummer," which beats rhythmically on the woodwork with his wings, is two inches long and measures three inches from tip to tip of his outspread wings. It is said that under the equator there is a con- nection of the family, very gay-colored and fully six inches long. But although. Fig. 27. Periplaneta aits/ralasice, the Australian roach; male with outspread wings, female, and pupa. more than one thousand species have been described, and it is guessed that there are more than five thousand in different parts of the globe, at the k cinther of the wurruld ' there are only four, and these are found to be a great plenty, the Ameri- can roach, Pcriplancla amcricami; the Australian roach, P. australasice, which, being a good sailor, fond of a rov- ing life, the warmth and moisture of the forecastle, to say nothing of its picturesque untidiness, is now generally distributed by ocean-borne commerce; P. orientalis, the Oriental cockroach, or ' black beetle," as our English cousins call it, because it is not a beetle and is not black, but dark brown. Last of all, and least of all, comes our friend the Croton bug, Ectobia Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sutherland, Harvey. New York ; London : Street & Smith
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