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INSECT MISCELLANIES. 



extremity (though not at all times naturally so), assist 

 in the process of suction. 



Suckers of the black-horned bug (Cimex nigricornis) . 



The plant-bugs are all furnished with wings and 

 membranous wing-cases, and many of them are of 

 considerable size, and decked in showy colours ; dif- 

 fering in all these points, from their congener, the 

 bed-bug (Cimex lectularius) , which is small, without 

 wings, arid of a dull uniform brown. The name is 

 derived from the same root as bug-bear, and hence 

 the passage in the Psalms, "thou shalt not be afraid of 

 the terror by night*," is rendered in Matthew's Bible 

 " thou shgilt not nede to be afraide of any bugs by 

 * Psalms; xci. 5. 



