CIMEX. BUG. 
Generic Character. 
Rostrum inflexum. 
Antennae thorace longiores. 
Al<e quatuor, cruciato-com- 
plicatce, superioribus an- 
tice coriaceis. 
Dorsum planum, thorace 
marginato. 
Pedes cursor! i. 
Snout inflected. 
Antenna\oxigex than thorax 
Wings four, cross-compli- 
cate, the upper pair cori- 
‘ aceous on the upper part. 
Back flat, with the thorax 
margined. 
Feet formed for running. 
Of this very numerous genus one species alone 
is apterous or destitute of wings; viz. that trouble- 
some and offensive insect the Cimex lectularius or 
common domestic Bug; now so frequent a nui- 
sance in the metropolis as well as in most parts of 
the country, though in a great degree unknown in 
England in the days of our ancestors. It is indeed 
affirmed by a writer* who has given a professed 
*■ See “ A Treatise of Bugs” by J. Southall. Lond. 1730. 8vo. 
This man, who practised the art of destroying these insects in 
houses, affirms with confidence that the application of his liquor, 
(tlie receipt of which he obtained from an old Negro in America,) 
to the holes or crevices of places containing them, immediately 
caused them to come out in great numbers and immediately die. 
“ On the application, (says he) of this liquor, at all seasons of the 
year, they will come out, and immediately die before your face.” 
V. VI. r. I. 11 
