ARADIM:, LYG^EID/E 541 



Phonergates bicoloripes. 



This reduvid attacks man in Africa. 



Family. Aradidae. 



Broad and very flat bugs, with antennas of four segments and the beak of three ; 

 scutellum short, no cuneus to elytra and the tarsi of two segments. They normally 

 live under the bark of trees, etc., and are found in most parts of the world. 



Dysodius lunatus, Fabr. (Pito Bug). 



A large species which is found in South America, frequenting 

 houses, and bites very severely. 



THE OCHINDUNDU. 



The bug is described by Wellman (Journ. Trop. Med., April 2, 

 1906, p. 97) as not only feeding on ticks, such as Ornithodonts 

 inoubata, but as also attacking man. It is called by the Angola Bantus 

 the ochindundu. It is black in colour ; the first two pairs of legs 

 are of a bright red hue. It has curious paddle-like structures on the 

 front four legs, which seem to be designed for securely holding the 

 ticks. It infects native kraals for the sake of preying on ticks. The 

 natives also state that it inflicts a bite which far exceeds in painfulness 

 that of the tick. They compare the bite with that of a poisonous 

 snake. 



Family. Lygaeidae. 



Scutellum short ; antennae four-jointed ; ocelli present ; membranous part 

 of hemielytra with never more than five nervures. Nearly all vegetable feeders , 

 A few are recorded here as biting man. 



Lyctocoris campestris, Fabricius. 



Syn. : Acanthia campestris, Fabr. (Lyctocoris domesticus}. 



Rare in habitations, lives on human blood. Found by Blanchard 

 in a bed at an hotel at Liverpool. The bite is undoubtedly worse 

 than that of Cimex ; cosmopolitan. In colour it is ferruginous, 

 shining, legs testaceous ; hemielytra slightly shorter and narrower 

 than the abdomen ; membranous portion transparent, the apex 

 broadly fuscous. Length 3-8 to 4-8 mm. 



Rhodinus prolixus, Stal, 1859. 



Sometimes attacks man, and the bite is very painful. It is 

 25 mm. long and 8 mm. broad, and occurs in Colombia. It is 



