Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . the larger spidersand centipedes. American Cockroach. (Periplaneia Atnericajia (L.)BuYm.; Sauss.) Figures 198;. 199. Plate XCIX ; Figure 19, a. Very common and perhaps indigenous. It is one of the mostabundant species here. Supposed to be of American origin, butnow found in nearly all warm countries, especially on the sometimes lives among and under the decaying debris, just abovehigh-tide, but is mostlj^ found in houses and stores and on Figure 199.—American Cockroach ; a large male ; about tiat. size. Length
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . the larger spidersand centipedes. American Cockroach. (Periplaneia Atnericajia (L.)BuYm.; Sauss.) Figures 198;. 199. Plate XCIX ; Figure 19, a. Very common and perhaps indigenous. It is one of the mostabundant species here. Supposed to be of American origin, butnow found in nearly all warm countries, especially on the sometimes lives among and under the decaying debris, just abovehigh-tide, but is mostlj^ found in houses and stores and on Figure 199.—American Cockroach ; a large male ; about tiat. size. Length43°. Phot, by A. H. V^. from a Bermuda specimen. It is yellowish or rusty brown, but the thorax (pronotum) isusually marked with a sub-marginal pale yellowish band, and oftenwith a triangular median spot of the same, which may be elytra of the male reach decidedly beyond the end of the body ;in the female they are much shorter. The adult male is decidedly A. E. Yerrill—The Bermuda Islands. 825 larger (about 20 per cent.) than the female, and flies with greatfacility ; length 38-43. Cockroaches were mentioned as abundant, by Gov. Butler, 1619,(see p. 737). In 1676 complaints were made that the cockroacheswere rapidly destroying the public records, and cedar chests wereordered made, in order to preserve them from further early cockroaches were probably this species. Australian Cockroach. [Periplaneta, Australasice (Fabr.) Brunn.;Sauss., Mem. Hist. Nat. Max., iii, p. 72, 1864.) Plat
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