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THE BED-BUG. 



where they are sometimes exceedingly numerous. The illus- 

 tration shows the eggs, young and adult, of this species 

 {Acanthia hirundinis Senyns). 



It is frequently stated that bed-bugs occur in our pine- 

 woods in a wild condition under bark, etc., and that w^hen- 

 ever a log-cabin is erected this would immediately swarm 

 with bed-bugs. Truth and fiction are here sadly mixed! It 

 is truth that such cabins often contain a dense population of 

 various insects parasitic upon man, but they have been 

 brought there bv the inhabitants, and did not come with 



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Fig. 165. — Larva of Aradus spec. 

 Greatly enlarged. Original. 



Fig. 164-.— Adnlt of Ara-lnx spec. 

 Greatly enlarged. Original. 



the timber from the woods. In many cases, -^"hen the writer 

 asked for the proofs, such insects as are shown in figs. 164 

 and 165 were sent to him as examples of them. They re- 

 semble bed-bugs in many ways, especially in their earlier 

 and unwinged stages, but a trained e^-e can readily detect 

 the very great difference between the two. Two species are 

 most commonly found in and about log-cabins; the one illus- 

 trated (fig. 164, adult; and fig. 165, larva) is black, as flat as 

 the genuine bed-bug, and just as inactive during the day. 

 It is a species oi Aradus, Another species not illustrated, re- 

 sembles the bed-bug even more closeh', being of the same 

 color and size; this is Aradus cinnamomeu^. These insects, 



