510 ANTHOCORTNA. 



Species 1. ACANTHI A LECTULARIA. 



CIMEX LECTULARIUS, Lin. F. S. 909 (1761); S. N. 477, 1 (1767); 



De G. Mem. iii, 195, 35, 1. 17, figs. 914 (1780) ; 



Curt. B. E. xii, fig. 569 (1835) ; Hahn, Wanz. 



iii, 17, t. 79, fig. 242 (1835). 



ACANTHIA LECTULARIA, Fab. E. S. 17, 67, 1 (1794) ; S. R. 112, 1 (1803) ; 



Wolff, Ic. Cim. 127, 121, 1. 13, fig. 121 (1804) ; 



Fall. Hem. Suec. 141, 1 (1829) ; Burm. Handb. 



ii, 253, 1 (1835); Zett. Ins. Lap. 271, 1 



(1845); Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 672, 1 (1860); 



Pied. Europ. Hem. 135, 1 (1861). 



Bed-brown, clothed with fine, short, yellowish hairs, and generally 

 covered with white dust. 



Head and Pronotum finely punctured. Elytra with large, deep, 

 distant punctures. Abdomen mottled with black ; above perceptibly 

 crenate-punctate, beneath shagreened. 



Length, 2| 2 lines. 



Too common in houses everywhere ; the blood-sucking pest of the 

 human race. 



The Eev. Leonard Jenyns, in the ' Annals of Natural History,' 

 vol. iii, described 3 species of Cimex which belong to this genus, but 

 having no specimens of them to refer to we subjoin his descriptions 

 verbatim. 



Species 2. ACANTHIA COLUMBARIA. 



CIMEX COLUMBARIUS, Jenyns, An. N. H. iii, 242, 244, 2, pi. 5, fig. 1 

 (1839). 



" Ferrugineo-ochraceus ; thorace profunde emarginato, lateribus 

 reflexis ; abdomine orbiculato, apice subacuto ; antennis arti- 

 culo tertio quarto paulo longiore." 

 " Long, vix 2 lin. Hab. in Columbis. 



" On comparing this species with the common house-bug, it will 

 be found to be smaller, and of a more orbicular form. The antennae 



