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I HAVE to thank the Rev. W. Houghton for his references on this subject, and to explain that I wrote Aristotle inadvertently for Aristophanes. My only objection to adopting σιλφη as the Greek equivalent for our cockroach is that the unpleasant smell which is mentioned as a characteristic of the former, is not particularly marked in the latter. If we adopt the view that the cockroach was known to the ancients, we must, of course, reject Gilbert White's story of its American origin, and, as he thought, its recent introduction into England.
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R., C. The Cockroach. Nature 3, 108 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003108e0
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