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EEDUVIID^. 



Darwin relates in his ' Voyage of the Beagle,' attacks travellers 

 who are camping out on the Pampas of South America, or who 

 are sleeping in outhouses. Before sucking the insects are quite 

 thin, but afterwards they become round and bloated with blood, 

 and are then easily crushed. One which Darwin caught was 

 placed on a table, and, though surrounded by people, if a 

 finger was presented, the bold insect would immediately pro- 

 trude its rostrum, make a charge, and, if allowed, draw blood. 

 Mr. Ivirby states, ' Text-book of Entomology,' that he has had 

 similar information given him by Mr. T. Edmonds, who lived for 

 some years in the same country. Although no ill effects follow 

 the attack as detailed above, according to Dr. Sharp, in the case 

 of C. sangidsKc/us, Leconte, a North-American species, great pain 

 and inflammation ensue, and may end in the gathering and dis- 

 charge of pus. 



1144. Conorhinus rubrofasciatus, dc Geer (Cimex), Mem. n\, p. 349, 

 pi. XXXV, f. 12 (1773) ; Amy. cV Sew. Hem. p. 384, pi. viii, f. '1 

 (1843); Stcil, Hem. Fabr. i, p. l23 (1868) ; Cliamj). Biol. Ccntr.- 

 Amer., lihynch. ii, p. 208, tab. xii, f. 22 (1899). 

 Stoll, Pun. f.*85. 



Piceous-brown ; basal margin of head, anterior angles and 

 anterior and lateral margins of pronotum, nearly apical half of 



scutellum, a basal oblique linear 

 streak and a subapical discal spot to 

 corium, connexivum and tarsi ochra- 

 ceous ; connexivum above and be- 

 neath spotted with piceous, the spots 

 not quite reaching lateral margins ; 

 membrane fuscous ; antennje finely 

 pilose, first and second joints piceous, 

 remainder pale ochraceous ; head 

 distinctly granulate ; antennte with 

 the first joint not quite reaching apex 

 of head, second joint about three 

 times the length of first ; pronotum 

 coarsely granulate, anterior angles 

 somewhat longly tuberculously pro- 

 minent, transversely impressed before middle, the anterior lobe 

 moderately subglobose ; disk of abdomen beneath distinctly 

 flattened. 



Length 19 to 23 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet {Stochlioha Mus.). Bombay (Leifh) ; Bor Ghat 

 (Dixon). Calcutta and Mysore (Ind. Mas.). Ceylon (Oreen). 

 Andaman Islands (Ind. JIks.). Burma ; Toungoo, Mandalay (Fea). 

 — Widely distributed throughout the Malay Peninsula and Ma- 

 layan Archipelago ; recorded from Madagascar ; AVest Africa 



Fig. 189. 

 Conorhinus ruhrofafcic/t/is 



