510 ANTHOCORINA. 



Sjjecies 1. — Acanthi a lectularia. 



CiMEX LECTULABius, Lin. F. S. 909 (1761); S. N. m, 1 (1767); 



De G. Mem. iii, 195, 35, 1. 17, figs. 9—14 (17S0) ; 



Curt. B. E. xii, fig. 569 (1835) ; Halm, Wanz. 



iii, 17, t. 79, fig. 212 (1835). 



ACANTHIA LECTULARIA, Fcib. E. S. iv, 67, 1 (1791) ; S. R. 112, 1 (1803) ; 



Wolff, Ic. Cim. 127, 121, t. 13, fig. 121 (1804) ; 



Fall. Hem. Suec. 141, 1 (1829) ; Burm. Haiidb. 



ii, 253, 1 (1835); Zett. Ins. Lap. 271, 1 



(1845) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 672, 1 (1860) ; 



Fieb. Europ. Hem. 135, 1 (1861). 



Red-brown, clothed with fine, short, yellowish hairs, and generally 

 covered with white dust. 



Head and Pronotum finely punctured. Elytra with large, deep, 

 distant punctures. Abdomen mottled with black ; above perceptibly 

 crenate-punctate, beneath shagreened. 



Length, 2^— 2f lines. 



Too common in houses everywhere ; the blood-sucking pest of the 

 human race. 



The Eev. Leonard Jenyns, in the ' Annals of Natural History,' 

 vol. iii, described 3 species of Gimex which belong to this genus, but 

 having no specimens of them to refer to we subjoin his descriptions 

 verbatim. 



Species 2. — Acanthia Columbaria. 



CiMEX coLUMBARius, Jenyns, An. N. H. iii, 242, 244, 2, pi. 5, fig. 1 

 (1839). 



" Ferrugineo-ochraceus ; thorace profunde emarginato, lateribus 

 reflexis ; abdomine orbiculato, apice subacute ; antennis arti- 

 culo tertio quarto paulo longiore." 

 " Long, vix 1\ lin. Hab. in Columbis. 



" On comparing this species with the common house-bug, it will 

 be found to be smaller, and of a more orbicular form. The antenuaj 



