CIMICIDJB. 227 



" Head distinctly longer than breadth with eyes, as broad as the 

 apex of pronotum ; antennae with the second joint nearly three 

 times longer than the first ; pronotum and head equally long, 

 the length equal to about i the width of the basal margin and a 

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

 subsinuate, 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; tibiae longly spinose." (Reuter.) 



Length 2| millim. 



Hab. Nicobar Islands ; Naukauri (fide Renter). 



I have not seen this species and only know it by lleuter'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 " Geratocombus setulosus is 

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



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

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



ClMEX BOTUNDATUS. 



Cimex rotundatus, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1852, p. 540, pi. xvi, 

 f. 2 ; StSl, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 25 (1865) ; Patton, 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. Hung, vii, 

 p. 632 (1909). 



Klinophilos horrifer, Kirk. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii, p. 45 (1899) ; id 

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



Cimex macrocephalus, 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 0. macrocephalus of Fieber was a synonym of 

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

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

 Swift at Calcutta. 



Add : Hab. Mauritius ; Beunion ; Socotra Isld. ; W. Africa ; 

 West Indies. 



