. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Fig. 2883.—Jii?!fl)i?tsfc» ahditminalis. Male at left, female at right;apterous form. Beak at left of male. (After Howard, UnitedStates Bull. Dlv. Ent. Dep. Ag.) cellulitis, the effects of whicli may continue for severaldays. No particular fear of serious effects need beentertained unless sjmptoms of septic poisoning appear. Rdsahus tlioracicus Stal. is a very similar species, occur-ring .southwestwardand in Mexico. Conorhiiius sangui-siifjus Le C, blood-sucking c
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Fig. 2883.—Jii?!fl)i?tsfc» ahditminalis. Male at left, female at right;apterous form. Beak at left of male. (After Howard, UnitedStates Bull. Dlv. Ent. Dep. Ag.) cellulitis, the effects of whicli may continue for severaldays. No particular fear of serious effects need beentertained unless sjmptoms of septic poisoning appear. Rdsahus tlioracicus Stal. is a very similar species, occur-ring .southwestwardand in Mexico. Conorhiiius sangui-siifjus Le C, blood-sucking cone tialteued,the liead more pro-duced and the beakmore slender than inthe preceding color is mainly adark gray to lilackish,with rather prominentbands on the side oft h e a b d o m e n ; thelength is full three-fourths of an inch (16to 17 mm.). The ab-domen is broader thanthe thorax, and the anterior legs are not so , ^. , ^ ... • iniicli thiHcpnoil ?,« in F «o/i!« higuttatus. (Af-mucii tnicKeuta as in ter Howard. Bull. United States precedmg forms. Ag. Div. Ent.) 161. Insects,lusects. KEFEREXCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. This species is distributed over a large range of thecountry from the Ohio River soutliward. It is called thebig bedbug in some localities on account of its habit ofsecreting itself in beds and attacking people who ma}-occupy Iheni. Its liite is verj* severe, the beak beingso strong that it may be thrust through ordinary cloth-ing, and its lengthsufficient {^> mm.) toreach well into theskin. Its punctureproduces violent in-fl a ni m a t i o n andswelling, and is like-ly to fester and dis-charge pus for sev-eral days. Closely relatedspecies with similarhabits occur to thesouthwestward to thePacific coast: C. ra-riegiilns Drury in theSouth; C. gerstockeriS t a 1. Texas andWestern states; andC. )>i-itlrii(tiiK Ihl. inUtah and cristatusLinn., wheel common speciessouthwa
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