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Acanthotermes (Pseudacanthotermes) spiniger Emerson, 1928, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., LVI, 
be 400, fig. 7, Pl, XXT, and Pl, XX, fie. 2: 
Breutetan Concgo.— Barumbu, October 28, 1913. These termites were 
building small eminences of clay from the soil, preparatory to the nuptial flight 
of the males and females. The eminences arose from the flat forest floor. 
Probably the true nest was located some distance away, since A. spiniger 1s 
known to build mounds. 
HETEROPTERA ! 
(Rhynchota) 
CIMICIDAE 
Cimex hemipterus (Fabricius) 
Acanthia hemiptera Fabricius, 1803, ‘Syst. Rhyngotarum,’ p. 113 (South America, in houses). 
Cimex hemipterus J. Bequaert, 1926, ‘Medical Rept. Hamilton Rice 7th Exp. Amazon,’ p. 184 
(with synonymy). 
Lrperta. — Moylakwelli, in native houses, October 27, 1926. Reppo’s Town, 
August 31, 1926. The native name among the Kpwesi is ‘‘ndonambei.”’ 
Bretegian Coneo.— On board river steamers near Coquilhatville and be- 
tween Ponthierville and Kindu. 
Some notes on the distribution of C. rotundatus in tropical Africa may be 
found in the Bulletin of Entomological Research (1911, II, pp. 179-180, and 
1912, III, p. 212, footnote). As elsewhere in the tropics, it is the common hu- 
man bedbug of Equatorial Africa, while the species of temperate regions, Cimex 
lectularius Linnaeus, is either totally absent there, or at least extremely rare. 
Newstead, Dutton and Todd (1907, Ann. Trop. Med. Paras., I, p. 95) list 
C. lectularius from Banana, Tshumbiri, Nouvelle-Anvers, Tshofa, Kabinda, and 
Lusambo, in the Belgian Congo, but as they do not mention C. rotundatus, I 
suspect that their specimens were misidentified. At any rate I have not yet 
seen Belgian Congo specimens of C. lectularius. According to Bedford (1927, 
11th & 12th Repts. Dir. Veter. Ed., South Africa, I, p. 783), C. lectularius is the 
common species in South Africa, while C. hemipterus has not yet been definitely 
recorded from that part of the Continent. It is quite possible that the true 
C. lectularvus occurs in Upper Katanga. 
Cacodmus villosus (Stal) 
Acanthia villosa Stal, 1855, Ofvers. K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Férh., XII, p. 38 (no sex; Natal). 
Cacodmus villosus Stal, 1873, K. Svenska Ak. Handl., N.8., XI, 2, p. 104. N.C. Rothschild, 1912, 
Ent. Mo. Mag., (2) XXIII, p. 86 (in part); 1913, loc. cit., (2) XXIV, p. 102 (in part); 1914, 
Bull. Ent. Res., V, p. 41, figs. 1 ( 9) and 4 (<7). Reuter, 1913, Zeitschr. Wiss. Insektenbiol., 
IX, p. 362. Bedford, 1927, 11th and 12th Repts. Dir. Veter. Ed., South Africa, I, p. 784. 
BELGIAN Coneo. — Avakubi, one male, off Pipistrellus musciculus Thomas, 
February 26, 1914 (J. P. Chapin). 
1 The interesting bat parasites of the family Polyctenidae are reported upon by Prof. G. F. Ferris, 
later in this chapter. 
