Blackbeetle
oriental cockroach.
Historical Examples
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 19, 1892 Various
‘Twixt Land & Sea Joseph Conrad
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss
A Book of Ghosts Sabine Baring-Gould
The Old World in the New Edward Alsworth Ross
Happy-Thought Hall F. C. Burnand
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 22, 1920 Various
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