1906 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



73 



HEMIPTEEA. 

 By Rev. Thomas W. Fyles, D.C.L., F.L.S., Levis, P.Q. 



Bugs! "Disgusting!" says the fair reader who may chance upon thia 

 article; and truly I agree with her. I have no word bad enough for "the 

 terror that walketh in the darkness" — the old, original "bug-a-boo." 



I shall never forget a night I spent on board a small river-steamboat. 

 The vessel left its wharf very early in the morning, and a friend (?) per- 

 suaded me to take a berth on board. What a night I spent. No sooner were 

 the lights put out, than I began to experience a creepy sensation that effectu- 

 ally "murdered sleep." (Fig. 18.) 



Fig. 18.— Female Bed-bus, much enlarged, o, upper, and b, under surface (after Marlatt.) 



Confined in a small crib, and having no light, my case was worse than 

 that of a certain church dignitary and his chaplain who, when on a visita- 

 tion tour, sought shelter in a cottage, late one night. They were welcomed 

 gladly; and the only spare-bedroom was placed at their service. On retir- 

 ing the great man turned down the bed-clothes, but quickly turned them 

 back again, for there were things in possession of the bed. He thought dis- 

 cretion the better part of valour, took his valise for a pillow, wrapt his long 

 cloak around him, and stretched himself upon the floor. There" he soon 

 slept the sleep of the just. Meanwhile his companion, ensconsed in an arm- 

 chair, amused himself by writing a parody on some well-known lines. One 

 verse of his production read thus : — 



"No dirty blanket enclosed his breast; 



Nor in sheet, nor in quilt we wound him ; 

 But he lay like a clergyman taking his rest 

 With his camlet cloak around him." 



In my entomological investigations in the Province of Quebec, I have 

 met with representatives of the undermentioned families of bugs: — 

 Corimelaenidse. Phymatidae. 



Pentatomidae. Nabidse. 



Coreidse. Reduviidse. 



Lygaeidae. Hydrobatidse. 



Capsidse. -Belostomatidse. 



Acanthiidse. Nep'idse. 



Tingitidae. Notonectidae. 



Aradidae. Corisidae. 



