Principal household insects of the United States . grown and the adult THE BEDBU(i AND CONK-NOSE. 41 state, often under bark of trees or in any similar protection, and only inits nocturnal spring and early summer flights does it become an enemyof man in the effort to gratify its taste for human blood. This insect is particularly abundant and usually enters houses inearly spring (April and May), sometimes in considerable numbers, andseems to be decidedly on the increase in the region which it particnlaily affects—the plains region from Texas northward and correspondent in Indian Terr
Principal household insects of the United States . grown and the adult THE BEDBU(i AND CONK-NOSE. 41 state, often under bark of trees or in any similar protection, and only inits nocturnal spring and early summer flights does it become an enemyof man in the effort to gratify its taste for human blood. This insect is particularly abundant and usually enters houses inearly spring (April and May), sometimes in considerable numbers, andseems to be decidedly on the increase in the region which it particnlaily affects—the plains region from Texas northward and correspondent in Indian Territory reported having in the course ofa short while killed upward of a dozen. They were usually found inthe bed or by, and their connection with the injury was oftenvery plainly evident by their being (bund turgid with blood. The common California species closely resembles in appearance andhabits the one named at the head of this section, but is a distinct species and apparently undescribed. Thelocal name in California for this insect is. monitor bug. Fig. 12.—Oonorhiniu$angui*uga: a,head,showing beak; b, same, from the side,with piercing Bets removed fromslipatli and with tip of one of them en-larged; c, Bame, from below—much en-larged (original). The results of the bite of the cone-nose on the human subject vary a good dealwitn the susceptibility of the person bit-ten, but are often of a very serious andalarming character. The piercing of theskin is evidently accompanied by theinjection of some poisonous liquid orvenom, making a sore, itching wound,accompanied with a burning pain lastingsometimes from two to four days, andoften associated with swellings, whichmay extend over a good deal of the there is a specific poison injected isindicated rather conclusively by the veryconstant and uniform character of thesymptoms in nearly all cases of bites by this insect. It has, suggested that the very serious results which sometimes followits bite may
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