cimicidj:. 227 



"Head distinctly longer than breadth with eyes, as bi-oad as the 

 apex of pronoturn ; antenna? witli the second joint uearl}' three 

 times longer than the first; pronotiun and head equallv long, 

 the length equal to about f the \\idth of the basal margin and a 

 little less than the apical margin, the sides moderately and broadly 

 subsiuuate, anterior angles rectangular, base broadly sinuate, disk 

 with a fine continuous longitudinal impressed line ; hemelytra 

 with the lateral margins incrassate, continued towards apex of 

 membrane, subequally narrowed; tibia) longly spinose." (Iteuter.) 



Length 24 millim. 



JJab. jVicobar Islands : Nankauri (Jlda Heater). 



T have not seen this species and only know it by lieuter's 

 description and figures which are here reproduced. The type was 

 supposed to be in the Copenhagen Museum, but I am informed by 

 Dr. Adam Boving of that institution — " Ceraiocoiabus seiuhsus is 

 certainly lost. I have not been able to find the type." 



Family CIMICID^. (Vol. II, p. 410.) 

 Genus CIMEX. (Vol. II, p. 410.) 



CiMEX EOTUNDATUS. 



Cimex rbtmidatus, Styii. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 18o2, p. 540, pi. xvi, 

 f. 2; Stdl, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 2o (1865); Pat/on, Ind. Med. Gaz. 

 xlii, no. 2, p, 2 (1907) ; id. Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 153, pi. xiii, 

 figs. 1, 2, 5 (1908) ; Horv. (Clinocoris), Ann. Mus. Rung, vii, 

 p. 632 (1909). 



Klinopliilos horrifer, Kirh. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii, p. 45 (1899) ; id. 

 " Nat. Hist. Sokotra ^- Abd-el-Kuri," p. 383, pi. xxiii, f. 3 (1903). 



Cimex macroceplialus, Fieb. (vol. ii, p. 411). 



Since I enumerated the Cimicidae of this fauna, Capt. W. S 

 Patton, I.M.S., has made a careful study of the Indian bed-bugs, 

 and from specimens received from the Island of Reunion was able 

 to prove that the C. macrocephalus of i'ieber Mas a synonym of 

 C. rotundatus, Sign., a name that must now be substituted for that 

 insect. Dr. Annandale has found it in the nest of the Common 

 Swift at Calcutta. 



Add : llab. Mauritius ; Reunion ; Socotra Isld. ; W. Africa ; 

 West Indies. 



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