British medical journal . ed pulices saitu fugeuut, culicesqae volatu Et cimices pravi nequeunt foetore necari. Among the numerous disagreeable features o£ the bed-bugis the fact that it has at least two scientific names—Cinica(under which name it was known to the classical writers)and Acanthia. The latter name is favoured by Frencb andsome German authorities, but Oimex was the name adoptedby Linnaeus and is mostly used by British writers, andwill be used throughout this article. One cannot do betterthan take tho advice of that wise old entomologist, Sharp, and allow the vlsjuq ^-Acan
British medical journal . ed pulices saitu fugeuut, culicesqae volatu Et cimices pravi nequeunt foetore necari. Among the numerous disagreeable features o£ the bed-bugis the fact that it has at least two scientific names—Cinica(under which name it was known to the classical writers)and Acanthia. The latter name is favoured by Frencb andsome German authorities, but Oimex was the name adoptedby Linnaeus and is mostly used by British writers, andwill be used throughout this article. One cannot do betterthan take tho advice of that wise old entomologist, Sharp, and allow the vlsjuq ^-Acanthia to fall intodisuse, The species which is the best known in England isC. lectnlarius, but there is a second species which ismuch commoner in warm climates (C. rotundatus). Asregards carrying disease, this latter species is evenmore dangerous than its more temperate relative. Otherspecies, which rarely if ever attack man, are found inpigeon-houses and dove-cotes, martins nests, poultry-houses, and the homes of Fig, 1.—Cimcc ;cc(»Zariiis, male. :< 15. (From Erampt.) The common bed-bug seems to have arrived in Euglaudabout the same time as tho cockroach—that is, soniofour hundred years ago. Apparently it came from thoEast, and was at first confined to seaports and seems to have been first mentioned by play-writersearly in the seventeenth century. How the insect gotthe name of bug is unknown. It has been suggestedthat the old English word bug, meaning a ghost orphantom which walked by night, has been transferredto Cimex. This may be so, but tho Dictionarytells us that proof is lacking. The insect is some 5 mm. iu length and about 3 mm. mbreadth, and is of a reddish or brownish rusty colour, 528 THE Enin?^Medical JoCB^?A; 1 INSECTS Ai^D THE WAE: THE BED-BUG. {Sept. 20, 1914 fading into black. Its body is estraoiclinaiily flattenedso that it cau readily pass into chinks or between splitsin furniture and boarding, and this it does wheneverday
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