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1. EUREUM CIMICOIDES. (Louse of the Swift.) 



Plate XXII. Fig. 4. 



Fulvous-chestnut, shining and pubescent ; abdomen 

 broad, nearly orbicular; occiput tuberculate on each side. 



Eureura cimicoides. Nitzsch. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 301. Steph. Cat. pt. ii. 

 p. 335. Burmefeter Handbuch ii. pt. ii. 441. Nirmus truncatus. 

 Olfers.91? 



Head very broad, transverse, anterior margin sub -angu- 

 lar, a large oblong foveola on each side before the eyes, 

 bordered by a dense row of hairs, temporal lobes rotundate, 

 convex, and prominent ; occiput concave, terminating on 

 each side in an acute projection; eyes oblong? maxillary 

 palpi long and thick, the second joint the largest, and sub- 

 rotundate, third short, fourth long and cylindrical; pro- 

 thorax about half the width of the head, quadrate, lateral 

 and basal margins concave, with three longitudinal de- 

 pressed lines, united by a transverse one in the centre, an- 

 terior margin with two short stiff spines on each side near 

 the head ; mesothorax narrow, posteriorly rotundate ; meta- 

 thorax transverse, lateral margin oblique, angles acute, base 

 rotundate ; abdomen very broad and flat, nearly orbicular, 

 segments nearly equal, sutural margin delicately striated 

 and produced in the centre, lateral margin serrulate, the 

 angles of each segment produced, acute, and terminated by 

 a small tuft of long hairs; legs long and thick, the anterior 

 pair close to the head, and shorter than the remainder, so 

 as to be nearly hid beneath the former ; femora short sub- 

 rotundate, posterior pair very long, femora sub-cylindrical ; 

 tibiae thick, terminating at an oblique angle, superior margin 

 with a row of long bristles. Length 1 f . 



A more expressive name than Cimicoides could not have 

 been given to this insect, which bears so striking a resem- 

 blance in colour and general appearance to the Cimex lec- 

 tularius, that no one could long remain in doubt who had 



