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HEMIPTERA 



Clinocoris rotundatus Signoret, 1852. 



SynonymSo — Cimex rotundatus Signoret, 1852; Cimex macro- 

 cephalus Fieber, 1861. This is the Indian bed-bug, which is found 

 in India, Ceylon, Burma, Assam, and Malaya in Asia, and also in 

 Sierra Leone, Mauritius, Reunion, St. Vincent, and Porto Rico. 



Morphology. — C. rotundatus differs from C. lectularius by being 

 darker in colour, with a shorter, narrower head, with a prothprax 

 with rounded borders, and with a longer, narrower abdomen. 



Pathogenicity, — According to Patton it spreads Leishmania 

 donovani, the parasite of kala-azar or tropical febrile splenomegaly. 



Clinocoris ciliatus Eversmann, 1841. 

 Synonym. — Cimex ciliatus Eversmann, 1841. 



This bug is found in Kasan, in Russia. It requires reinvestigation. 

 Morphology. — It is smaller than C. lectularius, yellowish-red in colour, and - 

 thickly covered with hairs. Length, 3-3 millimetres. 

 Pathogenicity. — Not known. 



Genus CEeiacus Stal, 1873. 



ClinocovidcB with the anterior margin of the thorax slightly excavated, and 

 with only slightly projecting lateral angles. 



Type Species. — CEeiacus hirudinis Jenyns, 1839; also (Eciacus vicarius in 

 martin and swallow nests in North America. 



Loxaspis Rothschild, 191 2. 



ClinocoridcB with anterior margin of thorax very narrow, scutellum trans- 

 versely oblong, with posterior margin produced centrally into a point. 



Type Species. — L. mirandus Rothschild, found on a bat in Uganda, and found 

 in 1 91 3 hy Marshall on bats in Sennaar, Anglo-Eg^^ptian Sudan; also L. 

 seminiteus on bats in Java, L. hayhorus Roubaud, 191 3, on bats, and bites man. 



Genus Cacodmus Stal, 1873. 



C villosus on Natal, Transvaal, and Nyassaland bats; C. ignotus on African 

 bats; C. indicus on Indian bats. 



Genus Aphramia Champion, 1900. 



Aphramia barys. 



Genus Has matosiphon Champion, 1900. 

 H. inodovum, usually found on fowls, but may enter dwellings. 



Genus Bertilia, 



B. valdiviana under the bark of trees in Chili. 



Genus Leptocimex Roubaud, 191 3. 



L. honeti, synonym Cimex honeti Brumpt, 1901, found on man in the higher 

 regions of the Ivory Coast and in Haute-Guinee. 



Family Anthocorid^. 



Gymnocerain with embolium, membrane with one to four nerves, which 

 arise at the tip and along the side of a triangular basal cell. Antennre cylin- 

 drical. 



Genera. — Anthocoris Fallen, 1829, and Lyctocoris Hahn, 1835. 



