Grammar School 



LETTER XXXIV. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, March 3o///, 1771. 

 EAR SIR, There is an insect with us, espe- 

 cially on chalky districts, which is very trouble- 

 some and teasing all the latter end of the 

 summer, getting into people's skins, especially 

 those of women and children, and raising 

 tumours which itch intolerably. This animal 

 (which we call an harvest bug) is very minute, 

 scarce discernible to the naked eye ; of a bright scarlet colour, 

 and of the genus of Acarus. They are to be met with in 

 gardens on kidney-beans, or any legumens, but prevail only 

 in the hot months of summer. Warreners, as some have 

 assured me, are much infested by them on chalky downs; 



