1908] GIRAULT — CIMEX LECTULARIUS LINNAEUS 87 



Later, at 9 o'clock, I examined the bed and the room, but found no more living 

 insects. The mattress was of hair, covered as usual; the springs, however, were 

 massive, and covered like the mattress; I was unable to get to the under side of them. 

 In a crevice of the mattress was found an exuvia of about the fourth ecdysis. No 

 crevices existed in the walls, excepting one between the molding and the baseboard 

 at the head of the bed; this could have harbored many of the insects, but none were 

 found there, nor any evidence of their presence. I believe the insects had been hid- 

 ing in the covering of the springs. No eggs were found in the accessible portion of 

 the bed. The temperature of the room was about 75° Fahrenheit. I learned through 

 the kindness of the hotel management that the room had been occupied on Oct. 2Sth 

 by two persons, but in spite of that fact, the bedbugs which I encountered did not 

 seem to have been recently fed. Unfortunately, I could not ascertain whether the 

 bed had been utilized, or vvhether they spent the night there. 



