HEMIPTERA. 2O5 



houses. And the opinion is held that it also infests bats and 

 ma>- be brought into our dwellings by these creatures. I have. 

 however, found no well-authenticated instance of its occurring 

 upon these animals, or of its being found in saw-dust, or under the 

 bark of trees, as has been reported. The means commonly employed 

 to destroy this pot is to wet the cracks of the bedstead and other 

 places in which it hides with corrosive sublim Ked in alcohol. 



This is sold by druggists under the name of bed-bug poison. AS 

 this substance is a virulent poison, it should be used with ire. 



A safer substance to use is P\ icthrum. In case of a badly infested 

 room, it should be thoroughly cleaned; fumed with sulphur; the 

 walls re-papered, kalsomined, or whitewashed ; and the wood-work 

 painted. In travelling where one is forced to lodge at places infe 

 by this insect or by tie. is, protection from them can be had by 

 sprinkling a small quantity of Pyrethrum powder between the sli 

 of the bed on retiring. 



Sub-Family II. ANTiiocoRiN.i-:.* 

 (TJic Fbwer4nigs.) 



In the Antkocorlnce the wing-covers are almost always fully 

 veloped ; and are furnished with an embolium (Fig. 174). The 

 ocelli are present, though sometimes difficult to 

 As in the preceding sub-family, the rostrum const 

 of three segments; the antenna^ of four; and the 



, of tin 174.- 



The species are small. They are found in a g; of 



variety of filiations, often upon trees and on fl<>\\ 



som under bark or rubbish. They are predacrous. 



Nearly thirty species have been catalogued from the Ur 

 State-. Tl. known of tlu -e is the Insidious Flower-bug, 



*///,/>.$ i>: This ; found preying upn th< 



habiting form of tin Phylloxera ; it is also >m- 



pany with the Chinch-bug, upon \\hich it pn y-, and Id \\hich it is 

 sometimes mistaken. 



Family XXVIII. 



This isone of t! hun- 



dred genera arc catalogued from North species 



Antbocortrue, Anthocorts : antkof 9, a bug. 



f Ctpskhe. Capmis : taftmt, a wagon-body, an enclosure. 



