REDUVIID^E 537 



C. lectularius. Jenyns also described a more pubescent species from 

 swallows as C. hirundinis. I have recently received an account of the 

 swallow bug invading a house in Kent and causing much annoyance. 

 -F. V. T.] 



Cimex ciliatus, Eversmann, 1841. 



3*3 mm. in length, yellowish-red, thickly covered with hair ; 

 indigenous in Russia (Kasan). 



[From a single specimen seen it is evidently distinct. F. V. T.] 



Family. Reduviidae. 



Head long, narrowed behind into a neck ; eyes large, prominent ; rostrum 

 thick and curved ; antennas moderately long, slender at the tip ; legs long and 

 stiff; carnivorous. 



Amongst the Reduviidce one genus is of particular importance, 

 namely the genus Conorhinus, which has a long head and the first 

 segment of the beak very much shorter than the second, and the 

 posterior tibiae longer than the femora. 



These large bugs have a wide distribution, the Oriental region, 

 North and South America, and the West Indies, Madagascar and 

 West and Central Africa. 



These large bugs may cause very nasty wounds by their bites, but 

 beyond that it has recently been shown that one interposes in the life- 

 cycle of a trypanosome, namely 



Genus. Conorhinus, Lap. 

 Conorhinus megistus, Burm. 



This large bug has recently been shown by Chagas to be the agent 

 in the development of the trypanosome (T. cruzii) which is the cause 

 of the well-known disease in many parts of Brazil called Barbeiro 

 (Barbier). This insect is about i in. long, black, with four red spots 

 on the pronotum, and six red lateral lines on the abdomen, black legs, 

 head and beak. The insect is figured in a coloured plate (No. 9) in 

 Mem. lust. Oswaldo Cruz, 1909, i, fasc. 2, pp. 158-218. 



A further account is given by Neiva. 1 



Conorhinus sanguisuga, Lee. (Blood-sucking Cone-nose). 



This bug is also known as the Texas or Mexican bed bug, also as 

 the big bed bug. It is particularly troublesome in the Mississippi 

 Valley in bedrooms. The bite is very severe and results in more 

 pronounced swelling and inflammation than that of the Cimex. 



1 Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz> 1910, 2, fasc. 2, pp. 206-212. 



