Insects of the order Dictyoptera comprising several families including Blaberidae, BLATTELLIDAE, Blattidae (containing the American cockroach PERIPLANETA americana), Cryptocercidae, and Polyphagidae.
    

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Turkish prisoners sitting in a cell with a barred window; two of them are racing cockroaches. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Lanos after W.T. Maud.

Ten insects, including the earwig, cockroach, grasshopper, praying mantis, cricket and mole cricket. Coloured engraving by J. W. Lowry after C. Bone.

The cockroach papers : a compendium of history and lore / Richard Schweid.

The medical and veterinary importance of cockroaches / by Louis M. Roth and Edwin R. Willis.

Malayan Blattidae / by R. Hanitsch.

"Salt and cancer" : reply to an adverse critic / by Frederick T. Marwood.

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The cockroach papers : a compendium of history and lore / Richard Schweid.

Ten insects, including the earwig, cockroach, grasshopper, praying mantis, cricket and mole cricket. Coloured engraving by J. W. Lowry after C. Bone.

The medical and veterinary importance of cockroaches / by Louis M. Roth and Edwin R. Willis.

Malayan Blattidae / by R. Hanitsch.

"Salt and cancer" : reply to an adverse critic / by Frederick T. Marwood.