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Is very large, entirely covers the abdomen, and Is marked 
all over with different fliaped fpots like eyes; whence it 
has been named the argus: it is a native of Sierra Leone, 
in Africa. 3. Cimex corticatus; a very curious fpecies, 
drawn to its natural fize. It is iingularly thin and flat, 
and near an inch long ; the eyes are fmall and round ; it 
is furniflied with a beak that extends to the middle of the 
abdomen; the efcutcheon is -large and triangular; the 
elytra or wing-cafes arc entirely opake and fmall, not co¬ 
vering the abdomen, which appears denticulated, and of 
a yellowifli green; the head, corflet, and elytra, are of 
a beautiful fawn-colour inclining to red: it is found at 
Brafil. 4. Cimex cflffatus, a very Angular infedt, l'orne- 
what refembling a fpider. It is near an inch and a quar¬ 
ter long 5 the head very fmall ; the neck long and ben¬ 
der; the thorax is final] and'black, the efcutcheon large 
and crefted, riling high, and dentated like the comb of a 
cock. The whole inledl is of a fine ferruginous brown, 
except a large oval fpat on the extremity of each elytrtim, 
which is of a beautiful gold green: it is a native of the 
ifland of St. Vincent. 5. Cimex crenulatus, from An¬ 
tigua; about three quarters of an inch long; the head is 
fmall, and red, Itriped with black ; eyes round and pro¬ 
jecting ; the thorax is red, marked with black; the ef¬ 
cutcheon greenilh black; the elytra the fame except at 
the ends, which are dark browm ; the wings are a light 
tranfparent ftraw-coiour ; down the center of the abdo¬ 
men pafles a broad line of a fhining bluilh green ; the fides 
red; indented with lines of black. 6. Cimex papillofus ; 
a: large and handl'ome fpeoies, very thick, gibbous at the 
ftern, and much comprefled : the head is fmall, the tho¬ 
rax riling high and large, the efcutcheon triangular, all 
of a bright yellowifli olive colour; the elytra are the 
fame, except at the tips, which are membranaceous and 
tranfparent; the inner wings are nearly the fame, but of 
a brighter colour. The abdomen is of a dark purple, an- 
nulated, and dentated at the fides, which have a bright 
_coppery glofs ; the anus terminates in two angular points, 
with a fmall thorn or cornicle on each fide : it meafures 
upwards of an inch, and is a native of China. 7. Cimex 
Druraei, fo named from Mr. D. Drury, author of the II- 
luttration of Exotic Infe&s, who firft introduced it; it is 
an ugly fpecies, about three quarters of an inch long: 
the body is large, fquat, and wholly of a deep fcarlet, 
except two broad tranfverfe bands of black which crofs 
the abdomen, and four round fpots, two' upon the tho¬ 
rax, about the fize of tares, and two juft above the anus, 
but fmaller; the wing-cafes or elytra are of a dark olive- 
colour; and the inner wings are the fame, but membra¬ 
naceous, and fomewbat lighter : this is a native.of'South 
America, and is reckoned' a very rare and curious infedt. 
8. Cimex Senegalenlis, a large fpecies, found in Senegal, 
meafuring in its expanded Itate, from wing to wing, near 
two inches : the head is dark mazarine blue ; the thorax 
cream-colour, charged with two oblong fquare biue-green 
fpots, which gives it the appearance of being toothed, or 
like the letter m inverted; the efcutcheon is of a trian¬ 
gular form, and of the fame deep blue-green, with the 
abdominal point terminated by cream-colour ; the elytra 
are blue-green half way from the cheft, and then fringed 
with a yellowifli brown ; the inferior wings are membra¬ 
naceous, and nearly white ; the abdomen is red, annula- 
ted with black, obtufe, dentated at the fides, and bor¬ 
dered with round black fpots. 9. Cimex aurantius, the 
general caff of the infect being an aurora or golden co¬ 
lour. It ranks among the handlbmelt of the bugs : the 
head and thorax are of an auburn brown, furrounded 
with a cream-coloured margin on the anterior fide, in the 
form of a crefcent; at the points of which an angular re¬ 
turn is made, of the fame colour, which enters the elytra 
in fliape of a fpine ; the fuperior and inferior wings are 
very innilar, the latter being the lighted; the abdomen 
is large, broad, and annulated with chel'nut belts on a 
golden ground; the anus is gibbous, terminating in a 
blunt cheihut protuberance, with a Ipine on each fide s 
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it is a native of India, and is found in the iflands of Java 
and Ceylon ; and meafures full two inches in its alar 
extent. 10. Cimex paradoxus, the leaf-infedt defcribed 
above, from Dr. Sparrman. 11. Cimex Merianae, thus 
named from madam Merian, who firft difcovered this 
frightful infedl at Surinam, and figured it from the life 
in her inimitable collection, from which our figure is 
taken. It is the largeft known fpecies of the cimex tribe, 
meafuring three inches and a half from head to tail, and 
near fix inches in alar extent. It is of a rich ferruginous 
brown colour, armed with a Angle fharp curved Ipine on 
the head, and another at the anus; eyes black and very 
prominent; two large dark-brown fpots on the thorax, 
about the fize of peas; two others more oblong behind; 
and others of various forms and fizes on the fore-legs; 
the elytra are reticulated with white, and are very thick 
andllrong; the interior wings are membranaceous, and 
of a delicate ftraw-colour. Fig. 12, is the larva of this 
gigantic cimex, which differs but little from the perfedt 
infedl, except in the want of its wings. It is the fame with 
the larva; of all the bug fpecies ; the body being nearly the 
fame in their creeping or caterpillar ftate, as when they 
have protruded their elytra and their wings. This is not 
only the largeft, but the moll dellrudlive and voracious, 
of the cimex genus, attacking and devouring, in its creep¬ 
ing ftate, toads, frogs, lizards, aquatic inleCts, and even 
filh; and in its winged ftate, preying upon reptiles, birds, 
and the larger animals, and even on the weaker indivi¬ 
duals of its own family. 
CIMICITUGA,/ - . [quodclmices fugant ; from its quality 
of driving away bugs.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
polyandria; order tetragynia, natural order multifiliquan 
The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium five¬ 
leaved ; leaflets roundifh, concave, caducous. Corolla : 
neCtaries four, petal-fhaped, urceolate, cartilaginous. 
Stamina : filaments twenty, filiform ; antherse t win. Pif- 
tillum: germs four to leven ; ityles recurved; Itigmas 
longitudinal on the ftyle. Perianthium : capfules oblong, 
opening with a lateral future. Seeds; very many, cover¬ 
ed with fpreading i’cales.— EJfential Character. Calyx, 
four or five-leaved ; neCtaries four, urceolate ; capfules 
four to feven. 
There is but one fpecies, cimicifuga fcetida, or ftink- 
ing bugbane. Linnaeus remarks, that it bears a great 
refemblance to aCtaea racemofa. Root perennial, thick 
knotty, fliort, with many thickilh fibres creeping tranf- 
verfely; Item fometimes two yards in height, red at the 
bale, thence pale green, flightly hirfute, fcarcely ftriated, 
foon dividing in two, one branch naked for the fpace of 
three inches, then fwelling into a knot, and liibdividing 
into three hirfute branchiets, each fuftaining a pinnate 
glutinofe leaf, the pinnas ferrate, hairy on the rib, pale 
green, veined : the other branch near the bale bears a 
leaf fimilar to the other, with more following which are 
gradually fmaller, till the uppermoft becomes entire ; 
flowers in long terminating racemes, alternate, globular, 
on very fliort pedicels; 'feeds feveral oblong, covered all 
round with membranaceous linear-oblong flexile pale 
fcales, and fattened along the whole of the opening future. 
The whole plant has a ftrong vircle frnell occalioning 
the head-ach. Native of the farther Siberia, from the 
river Jenilea : flowering the middle of July, and ripening 
its feed the middle of Augult. It was introduced here in 
i 777 > by Meffrs. Gordon and Grsefer. See Act^Ea. 
CIMKOWICK'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the pala¬ 
tinate of Novogodrek : eighteen miles weft of Slutk. 
. CIMMER'il, anciently a people near the Palus Mxo- 
tis. They invaded Alia Minor 1284 years before Chrift, 
and feized upon the kingdom of Cyaxares. After they 
had been matters of the country for twenty-eight years, 
they were driven back by Alyattes king of Lydia.—It is 
the name alfo of another nation on the weftern coall of 
Italy. The Country which they inhabited was luppofed 
to be fo gloomy, fo furrounded with mountains, woods, 
and forelts, that to exprefs a great obicurity, the exprel- 
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