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C. hirundinis: This species is rather less than C. columbarius ana in respect to form 
different from both this and the C. lectularius. The antennwe are comparatively short, 
and the third joint is scarcely if at all longer than the fourth. The eyes are not so 
prominent, the thorax is much less hollowed out in front, the anterior angles but: 
little produced, and the sides scarcely at all reflexed. The scutellum is wider at the 
base or more transverse and does not project so far backward; the elytra are less 
coarsely punctured; the abdomen is not so broad, and more rounded at the apex, 
the sides regularly curved. The whole insect is more pubescent. The color is ferru- 
ginous, inclining to testaceous, darker than in the common bed-bug, and the head and 
thorax are much clouded with fuscous. In one specimen the legs are spotted at or 
near the joints with this last color. There are also some fuscous spots on the abdo- 
men. The young or pupe have the abdomen much narrower than the perfect insect, 
inclining to oblong. 
C. pipistrelli: The antenne of this species are of an intermediate length between 
those of the C. lectularius and those of the C. columbarius, and the third joint is 
obviously longer than the fourth. The eyes are prominent. The thorax has a mod- 
erately deep excavation in front, and the sides are partially reflexed. The abdomen 
is narrower than in either of the above-named species, and much more attenuated 
posteriorly, the greatest breadth being rather before the middle. The thighs are 
more incrassated. The whole insect is more pubescent, approaching to hispid, and 
rather coarsely punctured. The color is dark ferruginous ochre, glistening with a 
faint metallic or subaeneous hue, not perceptible in any of the other species. The 
legs and antenn2 are a shade paler than the abdomen, and, as well as this last, with- 
out spots. 
Family REDUVIID2. 
This family contains a large variety of bugs, the majority of which 
appear to be strictly carnivorous in habit, many of them being of no 
little service in destroying injurious insects. They are provided with 
stout curved beaks; the antenne have the terminal joints smallest; 
the head is cylindrical, the neck usually long and the bodies generally 
slender, while the legs are strong and often armed with spines. Many 
species are capable of inflicting severe wounds, but probably very few 
of them do so except in self defense. One species, however, has been 
So many times recorded as attacking individuals of the human species 
for the purpose of sucking blood for food that it should be mentioned, 
at least, in this connection. 
THE BLOOD-SUCKING CONE-NOSE. 
(Conorhinus sanguisuga Lec.) 
This species, sometimes called the “big bed-bug,” is distributed 
throughout the southern United States and has been reported as fre- 
quently occurring in beds, attacking the sleepers and sucking their 
blood. The following from the American Entomologist (Vol. I, p. 88) 
sums up its habits: 
While taking his meal, as we are informed, he fairly spraddles himself out, and 
seems to enjoy it hugely. In the more southerly parts of Illinois, namely, in Madi- 
son, Jersey, and Union counties, we know of no less than eight specimens having 
been found in beds, and it must also occur as far north as Adams County, for we saw 
it in a collection of insects made at Quincy and exhibited at the State fair in 1868. 
Mr. Uhler, as he informs us, formerly received a specimen from southern Ohio, near 
Marietta, at which place it was said to be occasionally found in beds, and to cause 
