The interest of the subject dealt w i t h in this report lies chiefly in the knowledge of a new blood-sucking bug of domestic habits and feeding on man. The A . A . confirm the hematophagism of some hemipterous insects ...

The A.A. were able to find crithidiae and metacyclic I trypanosomes in the faeces of 8 specimens af an hemipterous insect of the Lygaeidae family, Clerada apicicornis Signoret, 1863, which were fed, from 3 to 14 days before, ...