In 27 dwellings located at Bairro da Ilha, in the County of Salto de Pirapora, S. Paulo State, Brazil, it the Gómez-Núñez method for selection of houses infested by Triatoma infestans bugs was tested. In the observations there no significant differences between this method and the simple house inspection through manual collection, were found but without using chemicals as repellents. Nevertheless, several good advantages such as the uniformity and the low cost of the method were noticed. The purpose was also to estimate the local infestation through the infestation index based on the percentage of positive boxes found in the second week of observation. In this research, the index was classified as Type III. The significance and usefulness of this classification will be tested by future researches. Nevertheless it will be reasonable to admit that the method has good possibilities of being used for the houses evaluation, after the insecticide application. So it will be of great interest to perform several other observations, in different places and with different species of these insects.
