200 THE BED-BUG. 
where they are sometimes exceedingly numerous. The illus- 
tration shows the eggs, young and adult, of this species 
(Acanthia hirundinis Senyns). 
It is frequently stated that bed-bugs occur in our pine- 
woods in a wild condition under bark, ete., and that when- 
ever a log-cabin is erected this would immediately swarm 
with bed-bugs. Truth and fiction are here sadly mixed! It 
is truth that such cabins often contain a dense population of 
various insects parasitic upon man, but they have been 
brought there by the inhabitants, and did not come with 
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Fig. 164.—Adult of Aradus spec. Fig. 165.—Larva of Aradus spec. 
Greatly enlarged. Original. Greatly enlarged. Original. 
the timber from the woods. In many cases, when the writer 
asked for the proofs, such insects as are shown in figs. 164. 
and 165 were sent to him as examples of them. They re- 
semble bed-bugs in many ways, especially in their earlier 
and unwinged stages, but a trained eye can readily detect 
the very great difference between the two. Two species are 
most commonly found in and about log-cabins; the one illus- 
trated (fig. 164, adult; and fig. 165, larva) is black, as flatas 
the genuine bed-bug, and just as inactive during the day. 
It is a species of Avadus. Another species not illustrated, re- 
sembles the bed-bug even more closely, being of the same 
color and size; this is Aradus cinnamomeus. These insects, 
