106 HEMIPTERA. 



7. Seticornes. With the antennae setaceous 

 towards the point. 



8. Oblongi. Of an oblong shape. 



9. Having the antennae wholly setaceous. 



10. Spinipedes. Having thin thighs armed 

 with spines. 



11. Linear es. With a narrow elongated 

 body. 



Among this numerous tribe of insects, there 

 is one, which is unhappily but too well known, 

 and too generally felt, to be disregarded. The 

 bed-bug, Cimex lectularius, we have every rea- 

 son to believe, has been a domestic pest from 

 time immemorial ; at least it is mentioned by 

 some of the Greek writers, who spoke of the 

 animal with feelings wholly independent of a 

 taste for Natural History. Southall, a cele- 

 brated bug-catcher, who published a treatise 

 on the subject in the year 1730, says that the 

 bug was scarcely known in England before the 

 year 1670, when it was imported among the 

 timber used in rebuilding the City of London 



