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for it. An article in reply to these enquiries is published in the 

 Genesee Farmer for August of the present year (vol. xviii, p. 249), 

 the substance of which may here be repeated with some additions, 

 as this is one of our most pernicious insects, and the measures for 

 subduing it which I have to suggest are regarded as important. 



Tliis insect is commonly called the May bug, though the name 

 May beetle will be a more definite and correct designation for it. 

 The custom of calling almost all insects " bugs," is often de- 

 nounced as being an Americanism; but this, like many others of 

 these reputed Americanisms we obtained from our father-land. 

 Thus the cockchaflfer, the European analogue of this insect, we 

 see is termed the May bug in the English translation of Kollar's 

 Treatise — a clear evidence that we have obtained the name which 

 we give to our insect from England. And in several other 

 instances, the name bug will be met with in British publication-j, 

 applied to beetles. Still, every person intelligent upon this sub- 

 ject is aware it will be an improvement in our language to give 

 the name beetle to all hard, crustaceous-coated insects, which 

 belong to the order Coleoptera, and restrict the name bug to the 

 order Hemiptera, or those flat-backed insects which emit the same 

 disgusting scent as the well-known bed-bug. 



This insect is also frequently termed "horn-bug," being confound- 

 ed with a larger, perfectly smooth and more flattened beetle, (No. 6, 

 Lucanus Capreolus, Linn.,) which comes out later in the season. 

 It is thus called more particularly, when, like the true liorn-bug, 

 it flies in at the open windows of our dwellings upon warm even- 

 ings, which both of them frequently do, to the great annoyance 

 and even terror of the female portion of the household. Neither 

 of these insects, however, can harm our persons; and when they 

 intrude into my room in this manner, I find the quickest way to 

 dispose of the pests, is with my fingers to hold their heads in the 

 candle a moment or two, and then toss them out the window. 



The name " field grub" has also been given to the larva of this 

 insect in some neighborhoods where its destructiveness has brought 

 it into notice and it was not known that it subsequently turned 

 into a beetle. 



As this is one of our most important noxious insects and will 

 be fre(juen(Iy mentioned in the agricultural publications of this 

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