174 Girault, Bibliography of the Bedbug, Cimex lectularius Linnaeus. 



illustrated dictionary of medicine, biology and allied sciences (Gould) 

 ' Philadelphia, edit. 5, p. 985, edit, i, 1894. 



Cimex lectularia Merrett (1667). Brief and very erroneous 

 account. Introduced into India; carried to London by the Huguenots; 

 attacks birds, doves, swallovv^s, and so on; pepper-grass (Lepidium) 

 used as trap in Europe. Synonyms are columbarius and hirun- 

 dinis. 

 ipo2. a)Marlatt, Charles Lester, The House centipede. (Scutigera 

 forceps Raf.), Circular No. 48, series 2, U. S. Dep. Agric, Division 

 Ent., Washington, p. 2. Same as Marlatt (1896c). 

 ipo2. b) Idem, The bedbug (Cimex lectularius Linn.). Circular No. 47, 

 series 2, U. S. Dep. Agric. Division Ent., Washington, 8 pp., 3 figs. 

 Reprint of Marlatt (1896a), which compare. 

 1902. c) Idem, Cockroaches. Circular No 51, series 2, U. S. Dep. Agric. 

 Division Ent., Washington, pp. 5—6. 

 The same as Marlatt (1896b). 

 1902. Neveu-Lemaire, Maurice, Parasitologic animale. Paris, pp. 161, 

 168—169, figs. A and B, and 191. Précis de médecine. 



Description and habits, with figure of adult and head ; gives as a 

 synonym, Cimex lectularius Merrett, 1667. 

 1902. Osborn, Herbert, Insects, parasitic. A reference hand-book of the 

 medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical 

 medicine, and allied sciences, by various authors. New York, new 

 revised edit., V, MDCCCCII, pp. 155 — 156, figs. 2865—2867. 

 General account; figures copied. Cf. Riley (1887). 

 1902. Wagner, Franz von, Schmarotzer und Schmarotzertum in der 

 Tierwelt. Leipzig, p. 140. Sammlung Göschen. 

 Brief notes. 

 1904. Guénaux, Georges, Entomologie et parasitologic agricole. Paris, 

 pp. 452—453, fig. 295. Encyclopédie agricole, Paris. 

 Short account, with remedies. 

 1904. Leid 3?^, Joseph Jr., Researches in Helminthology and Parasitology 

 by Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL. D., ^/c. Smithsonian Mise. Collections, 

 Washington, XLVI, pp. 148—149. 

 A reprint of Leidy (1877). 

 1904. Wilcox, Earley Vernon, Experiment Station Record. U. S. Dep. 

 Agric. Office of Exp. Stations, Washington, XV, p. 546. 



Mentioned. Meeting association of economic entomologists at Saint 

 Louis, January 1904, reported. 

 ZÇOJ. Girault, Alec andre Arsène, The bedbug, Clinocoris (= Cimex 

 = Acanthia = Klinophilos) lectularia Linnaeus. Part. I. Life- 

 history at Paris, Texas, with biological notes, and some considerations 

 on the present state of our knowledge concerning it. Psyche, Boston, 

 XII, pp. 61 — 74. Reviewed, Editors (1906). 



Brief description of the larval stages; length of egg and larval 

 instars; feeding-habits; oviposition; length of life with and without food; 

 relation to man from the medical standpoint; points indefinite or unknown 

 in its life-history and economy. Vide Girault (1906a). 



