160 INSECTS AFFECTING DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
infested with this pest, on being thoroughly fumigated with sulphur as 
a disinfectant against scarlet fever remained for some time compara- 
tively free from bugs. : 
Attention to the cracks in the walls and around casings, as well as 
to the joints of bedsteads, will do much to keep pests under control. 
For immediate relief in a sleeping room pyrethrum is most available, 
since it can be used while a room is occupied. Dusted between the 
sheets of a bed, it will protect the sleeper from the most voracious 
hotel bug. 
THE “CORUCO,” OR MEXICAN CHICKEN BuG. 
(Acanthia inodora Dugés.) 
In 1892 Dr. Alfredo Dugés, of Guanajuata, Mexico, described! and 
figured a species of bed-bug infesting poultry, and the same, or a very 
closely related form, is recorded from southern New Mexico by Prof. 
C. H. Tyler Townsend, who says: 
There exists in southern New Mexico a Cimicid, known by the Mexican name of 
- coruco, which is an unmitigated pest of poultry in this region. When the insect 
once gains access to the hen- 
house it soon swarms in great 
numbers, infesting the inmates 
and roosts, and covering the 
eggs with the excrementa, 
which show as black specks. 
It is a very difficult pest to 
exterminate, and has been fre- 
quently known to spread from 
roosts to dwelling houses, 
where it proves more formida- 
insect also exists in western 
Pexag,? 6, Seo 
Dr. Dugés mentions applica- 
tions of vinegar as a remedy,’ 
doubtless to be applied ta the 
poultry to alleviate the bites, 
as well as to deter the corucos 
from biting. Here burning of 
sulphur in the henhouses and 
spraying of kerosene have been 
tried with doubtful results. 
About the only way to keep 
poultry uninfested is to keep 
them entirely out of doors and not to house them at all. The corucos infest and 
stick to the houses and roosts, awaiting the return of the hens at night. They 
began to appear in Las Cruces the present year (1893) before the middle of April. 
Iam informed that the corucos often swarm in immense numbers in houses, com- 
ing up through the floors and cracks. In such cases it is almost impossible to get 
rid of them, the easiest and most economical way being to desert the house. They 
Fia. 90.—Acanthia inodora: female; a, outline of egg—en- 
jarged (original). 
1La Naturaleza, 2d series, Vol. II, 1892, Pl. VIII, 8 figs. 
ble than the bed-bug. This - 
a Soe ere, 
