CIMEX, or BUG, in Zoology, a genus of insects belonging to the order of hemiptera. See Entomology Index.
The methods of expelling house-bugs are various, as oil of turpentine, the smoke of corn-mint, of narrow-leaved wild cress, of herb-robert, of the reddish agaric, of mustard, Guinea pepper, peats or turf, &c. See also BUG and CIMICIFUGA.