It was probably an oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis that were common in the houses in the town we lived in back then in Turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting animal meme] Reference

Some interpreters regard it as the Blatta orientalis, the cockroach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Sprung from a distinguished family, he was the son of Blatta and Plato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

He's worked with some heavy-hitters in the scene including The Bloody Beetroots and Blatta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicagoist] Reference

It is a small black-beetle or cockroach, called by scientists ` ` Blatta germanica '' and by others the ` ` Croton Bug. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

Blatta orientalis and the Blatta germanica, who raid by night and by day respectively; I looked at Grelet's surroundings, and I accepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference

Blatta, Mantis, Forficula, Ephemera, Libellula, etc. I may refer to a corresponding remarkable example from the vegetable world: amongst Ferns the genera Aneimia, Schizaea and Lygodium, belonging to the group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

The thirteen species belong to the following orders: —In the Coleoptera, a minute Elater; Orthoptera, a Gryllus and a Blatta; Hemiptera, one species; Homoptera, two; Neuroptera, a Chrysopa; Hymenoptera, two ants; Lepidoptera nocturna, a Diopæa, and a Pterophorus (?); Diptera, two species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XX] Reference

A great deal of anxiety with regard to the contents was manifested by all concerned, but on the lid of the box being removed, there issued from it three or four fine specimens of the enormous Blatta beetle that had been preying upon the plants during the voyage; against these the gardeners, the grooms, the porters, and the porters 'children, issued forth in arms, and this scene the artist has immortalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Cruikshank] Reference

A great deal of anxiety with regard to the contents was manifested by all concerned, but on the lid of the box being removed, there issued from it three or four fine specimens of the enormous Blatta beetle that had been preying upon the plants during the voyage; against these the gardeners, the grooms, the porters, and the porters’ children, issued forth in arms, and this scene the artist has immortalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Cruikshank] Reference

Elater; Orthoptera, a Gryllus and a Blatta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

It is a small black-beetle or cockroach, called by scientists "Blatta germanica" and by others the "Croton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

Blatta subverrucosa, new species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference

(2) Fur - pura, vel pannus purpurd ooloris, pro Blatta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossarium manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis] Reference

Blatta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Blatta bizantina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Blatta, the, xvi.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference

Blatta germanica.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemies of Books] Reference

Blato (Blatta) "99·93" 0·05.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2] Reference