G ir au It, Bibliography of the Bedbug, Cimex lectularius Linnaeus. i8i 



iScfO. Mon ti Hot, Louis, L'Amateur d'insectes. Paris, pp. 276— 277. (Biblio- 

 thèque des connaissances utiles.) 

 Two novel remedies. 



i8gj. Comstock, John Henry, and Anna Bots ford Comstock, 

 Manual for the study of insects, Ithaca, p. 140, fig. 167. Edit. 2, 1897. 

 Brief notes with remedies. 



1895. Perkins, G. H. , Report of the entomologist. 8^'^' annual Rep. Ver- 

 mont Agric. Exp. Station f. 1894, Burlington, p. 128. 

 Brief remarks on remedies. 



iSc}^. Trouessart, Edouard- Louis, Les parasites des habitations hu- 

 maines. Paris, pp. 94—96, 131— 162. (Encyclopédie scientifique des 

 aide-mémoires. 



Brief account , with discussion of the remedies. Undated , date 

 obtained through kindness of author; H über (1899) gives it as 1896. 



1896 Semper s, Frank W., The bed-bug. Injurious insects, and the use 

 of insecticides. A new descriptive manual on noxious insects, with 

 methods for their repression. Philadelphia, edit. 3, pp. 29, 205 — 206, 

 fig. 183 a, b. 



Brief notes with remedies; figures copied. 



iSc}"]. L e i St i k o w, L., Therapie der Hautkrankheiten. Hamburg und Leipzig, 

 P' 375- Russian edit., p. 266. 



„Wanzen entfernt man durch Chinin in Benzin gelöst." 

 i8ç)8. Editors, Un remède contre les punaises. Lyon Médicale, Lyon, 



LXXXVII, pp. 534-535. 

 i8()g. Lounsbury, Charles P., Ephestia kuehniella and A cant hi a 

 lectularia. Ent. News, Philadelphia, X. pp. 291 — 293. 



Occurrence in Cape Colony, South Africa; hydrocyanic acid as a 

 remedy for. 



igoo. e) Felt, Ephraim Porter, Bed bug (Acanthia lectularia). 15th 

 Rep. state Ent. on injurious and other insects of the state of New 

 York, 1899. Bull. No. 31, Vol. 6, New York State Museum, Albany, 



PP- 585. 586. 



Treatment and enemy. 



IÇ00. Lounsbury, Charles P., Railway carriage fumigation. Rep. Govern- 

 ment Ent. f. 1899. Cape of Good Hope Dep. Agric, Cape Town, South 

 Africa, pp. 17—19; 33. 



Trouble experienced by railroad companies in keeping their rolling 

 stock free from vermin: inefficiency of formaldehyde; trial, success, 

 and adoption of hydrocyanic acid. Remarks. 



igoo. Teppe r, J. G. O,, Notes on cockroaches in South Australia. Bull. 

 No. 22, new series, U. S Dep. Agric, Division Ent., Washington, 



PP- 95-96. 



Includes the following: „The only kind of pyrethrum powder I 

 found effective is Keating's; ****. Neither fleas, bedbugs, ants, nor 

 mosquitoes appear to be proof against its effects nor the minute pests 

 infesting dried fruit." P- 95. 



