1 66 Girault, Bibliography of the Bedbug, Cimex lectularius Linnaeus. 



1873. Hutton, F. W., On the geographical relations of New Zealand fauna. 

 Trans, and Proc. New Zealand Institute, Wellington, p. 248. 

 Mentions as one of the unintentionally introduced insects. 



1873. Riley, Charles Valentine, Fifth annual report on the noxious, 

 beneficial and other insects of the state of Missouri, made to the state 

 board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from 

 the legislature of the state. Jefferson City, p. 12. (8^^ Annual 

 Rep. State Board Agric. f. 1872). 



Mentioned. 

 18^4. Cauty, Henry Evans, Diseases of the skin, in twenty-four letters 

 on the principles and practice of cutaneous medicine. London and 

 Liverpool, MDCCLXXIV, pp. 307—309. 



Popular account of under the name of Acanthia lectularia, 

 giving some rather remarkable statements concerning its habits; bed- 

 bugs crawl to the ceiling and drop on the host, when the latter is 

 otherwise inaccessible. Recommends pyrethrum. Title-page dated 1774 

 in roman numerals, but the date is evidently an error as the dedication 

 bears date of 1873. 



1874. Lintner, Joseph Albert (J. A. L.), Cultivator and Country Gentle- 

 man, Albany, XXXIX, p. 615. 



Answer to correspondent. General account with remedies. 

 18'] s . Anonymous, Punaise. Grand dictionnaire universal du XIX« siècle 

 français, historique, géographique, mythologique, etc., etc., par M. P i e r r e 

 Larousse, Paris, tome treizième, p. 415. 



Good general account, with remedies. "Détruire complètement la 

 punaise est une idée impracticable; lui faire une guerre de tous les 

 instants, voilà la réalisation possible; ***" Application of the word 

 punaise. 



1875. Editors, Cimex lectularius. Scientific American, New York, XXXII, 

 p. 289. 



On the uses of the bedbug. Stated that they hate horses and 

 wage war on fleas; will not attack fowls, but will swallows and bats 

 Goeze (1778) has kept them alive six years without food. Eggs hatch 

 in three weeks. Rather fanciful. 



1876. Dodge, Charles Richards, Centennial captures. Field and Forest, 

 Washington, D. C, II, p. 33. 



Brief note. Specimens taken from seat of steam-car. 

 1876. Glover, Townend, Manuscript notes from my journal, or illustrations 

 of insects, native and foreign. Order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera. 

 Washington, pp. 18—19, pl- III> %• 9- 



General account, including, synonomy and colored figure of adult. 

 *i876. Riley, Charles Valentine, Swallows; bed-bugs. Colman's Rural 

 World, July 5^''. 



Answer to correspondent. Nests ofHirundo fulva generally 

 infested, those ofH. americana rarely so. 

 18']']. Leidy, Joseph, On the Bed-bug and its allies. Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, XXIX, p. 284. 



Remarks on the host relation of the bedbug to swallows and -bats 



