Fam. 2.—Phyllodromidæ. Seventh abdominal sternum undivided in female. Sub-anal styles usual in male (0 or rudimentary in Phyllodromia). Wings without triangular apical area. Phyllodromia, including P. germanica (Blatta) and other genera.
Fam. 3.—Epilampridæ.
Fam. 4.—Periplanetidæ. Seventh abdominal sternum divided in female. Sub-anal styles conspicuous in male. Polyzosteria, Periplaneta, &c.
B.—Femora not spinous (Muticæ).
Families.—Chorisoneuridæ, Panchloridæ, Perisphæridæ, Corydidæ, Heterogamidæ, Blaberidæ, Panesthidæ.
Many useful references will be found in Scudder’s Catalogue of N. American Orthoptera, Smiths. Misc. Coll., viii. (1868).
[14] Linnæus was certainly mistaken in his remark (Syst. Nat., 12th ed.) that this species is native to America, and introduced to the East—“Habitat in America: hospitatur in Oriente.” He adds, “Hodie in Russiæ adjacentibus regionibus frequens; incepit nuperis temporibus Holmiæ, 1739, uti dudum in Finlandia.”
[15] This must have been the “San Felipe,” a Spanish East Indiaman, taken in 1587. See Motley, United Netherlands, Vol. II., p. 283.
[16] Biblia Naturæ, Vol. I., p. 216.
[17] De Borck. Skandinaviens rätvingade Insekters Nat. Hist., I., i., 35.