Handbook of medical entomology . 21. (o) personatus, by M. V. S. species are frequently to befound in houses and outhouses andDr. Howard suggests that many ofthe stories of painful spider bitesrelate to the attack of these forms. An interesting psychological studywas afforded in the siunmer of 1899,by the kissing-bug scare whichswept over the country. It wasreported in the daily papers that anew and deadly bug had made itsappearance, which had the impleasant^h^tiTZllTuTs^^ habit of choosing the lips or cheeks 32 Poisonous Arthropods. 22. Rasahus biguttatus
Handbook of medical entomology . 21. (o) personatus, by M. V. S. species are frequently to befound in houses and outhouses andDr. Howard suggests that many ofthe stories of painful spider bitesrelate to the attack of these forms. An interesting psychological studywas afforded in the siunmer of 1899,by the kissing-bug scare whichswept over the country. It wasreported in the daily papers that anew and deadly bug had made itsappearance, which had the impleasant^h^tiTZllTuTs^^ habit of choosing the lips or cheeks 32 Poisonous Arthropods. 22. Rasahus biguttatus. (x2). After j^gi-j^-^Howard for its point of attack on man. So widespread were the storiesregarding this supposedly new insect that station entomologists all over the country began to receive sus-pected specimens for identification. AtCornell there were received, amongothers, specimens of stone-flies, may-flies and even small moths, with in-quiries as to whether they were kiss-ing-bugs. Dr. L. 0. Howard has shown that thescare had its origin in newspaper reportsof some instances of bites by eitherMelanolestes picipes (fig. 19a) or Opsi-coetes personatus (fig. 20), in the vicinityof Washington, D. C. He then discussesin considerable detail the more promi-of the Reduviidse which, withgreater or less frequency pierce the skinof human beings. These are Opsicoetes personatus, Melanolestespicipes, Coriscus subcoleoptratus (fig. igg), Rasahus biguttatus (fig. 22), Conorhinus sanguisugus (fig. 71), and (fig. 23). One of the most interes
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