CIMEX. BUG. 



Generic Character. 



Rostrum inflexum. 

 Antenn<e thorace longiores. 

 Alee quatuor, cruciato-com- 



plicatae, superioribus an- 



tice coriaceis. 

 Dorsum planum, thorace 



marginato. 

 Pedes cursorii. 



Snout inflected. 



Anttnnte longer than thorax 



Wings four, cross-compli- 

 cate, the upper pair cori- 

 aceous on the upper part. 



Back flat, with the thorax 

 margined. 



Feet formed for running. 



v_>/F this very numerous genus one species alone 

 is apterous or destitute of wings; viz. that trouble- 

 some and offensive insect the C'imex lectularius or 

 common domestic Bug; now so frequent a nui- 

 sance in the metropolis as well as in most parts of 

 the country, though in a great degree unknown in 

 England in the days of our ancestors. It is indeed 

 affirmed by a writer* who has given a professed 



* See " A Treatise of Bugs" by J. Southall. Lond. 1730. 8vo. 

 This man, who practised the art of destroying these insects in 

 houses, affirms with confidence that the application of his liquor, 

 (the receipt of which he obtained from an old Negro in America,) 

 to the holes or crevices of places containing them, immediately 

 caused them to come out in great numbers and immediately die. 

 " On the application, (says he) of this liquor, at all seasons of the 

 year, they will come out, and immediately die before your face." 



V. VI. P. I. 11 



