In like manner, the cimex apterus, Linn.
"On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera"
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
But I should not so readily adventure upon it on that account, as to its wholsomness: For tho' indeed one may safely eat of a Peach or Abricot, after a Snail has been Taster, I question whether it might be so of all other Fruits and Herbs attack'd by other Insects: Nor would one conclude, the Hyoscyamus harmless, because the cimex feeds upon it, as the Learned Dr. Lyster has discover'd.
"Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets"
John Evelyn
In the note-book the record is as follows: 1141 cimex.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others