phoraspe

Updated: May 18, 2025

But on his way he had met the cockroach in question, and his desire was held, however, against certain entomologists to prove the cockroaches of the phoraspe species, remarkable for their colors, have very different habits from cockroaches properly so called; he had given himself up to the study, forgetting both that there had been a Captain Hull in command of the "Pilgrim," and that that unfortunate had just perished with his crew.

Jules Verne - Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen