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INSECT MISCELLANIES. 



extremity (though not at all times naturally so), assist 

 in the process of suction. 



Suckers of the black-horned bug (Cimex nip-icomis). 



The plant-bugs are all furnished with wings and 

 membranous wing-cases, and many of them are of 

 considerable size, and decked in showy colours ; dif- 

 fering in all these points from their congener, the 

 bed-bug {Cimex lectularius), which is small, without 

 wings, and of a dull uniform brown. The name is 

 derived from the same root as biig-heaVy and hence 

 the passage in the Psalms, ' thou shalt not be afraid of 

 the terror by night,' * is rendered in Matthew's Bible 

 ' thou shalt not nede to be afraide of any bugs by 



* Psalms, xci, 5. 



