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Dl G. HORVÁTH 
Mr. W. L. Distant (Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. Y. p. 227) — Dr. Annandale 
has found this species also in India in the nest of the Common Swift. 
The hairs on the lateral sides of the pronoinm are somewhat 
variable in the length. They are usualy shorter than the breadth of 
one eye, though in many cases of the same length. The specimens 
received from Jamaica and two specimens of the Hungarian National 
Museum from Brazil (without locality) have these hairs longer than the 
breadth of one eye. All other characters being the same, I find no 
reason to regard them as distinct species or variety. 
4. Cimex foedus Stal. 
Acanthia foeda Stal Öfv. Vet.-Ak. Förh. XL p. 237. 1. (1854). 
Cimex foedus Stal Enmn. Hem. III. p. 104. 4. (1873). 
This species described from Colombia (Remedios) seems very closely 
allied to C. hemipterus Fabr., but differs by the whole lateral margins 
of the pronotum being narrowly depressed. Prof. Sjöstedt, who has 
kindly examined the unique type in the Stockholm Museum, informs 
me, that the second joint of the antennæ is only a little longer than 
the third (18:17) and the hairs on the lateral sides of the pronotum 
are shorter than the breadth of one eye. 
5. Cimex valdivianus Philippi. 
Acanthia valdiviana Philippi Stetl Ent. Zeit. XXVI. p. 64. (1865). 
Dr. R. A. Philippi has described this species from Chili, where 
two specimens, an adult and a larva, were caught under bark at San 
Juan, prov. Yaldivia. It seems to be very closely allied to the Common 
Bed-bug, but Philippi writes, that the hairs of the body are very much 
shorter, the lateral sides of the pronotum more dilated and the metá¬ 
nokon sculptured exactly as the dorsal abdominal segments. 
Oeciacus Stal. 
Oeciacus Stâl Emma. Hem. III. p. 104. (1873). 
The only species hitherto known of this genus was the European 
Oeciacus hirundinis Jen. common in the nests of swallows. It is replaced 
in America by an other new T species, living there under the same con¬ 
ditions. 
