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b iimidiatus. Basal half of the thorax deep velvety black, anterior half grayish. 
Common. 
C) fulvivenosus. The stripes on the wing covers tawny yellow instead of black. 
j albivenosus. Wing covers white, without any black marks except the margi¬ 
nal spot. A male. 
e apterus. Wingless and the wing covers much shorter than the abdomen. 
f t basalts- Basal joint of the antennae dusky and darker than the second. 
vigricornis. Two first joints of the antenna; blackish. 
h femoratus. Legs pale livid yellow, the thighs tawny red. Common, 
j rvfipedis. Legs dark tawny red or reddish brown. 
As will be seen from the historical notices which are given 
above, this insect was at first called the Hessian fly or Hessian 
bug, in Carolina. And as appears from the description given by 
Kirby and Spence, it was only the red larvae of these insects 
which were then supposed to be the depredators, no one being 
aware that the black bugs with white wing covers were the same 
insects in a more advanced state. As these larvre have a close 
resemblance to the common bed-bug (Cimex lectularius, Linnaeus) 
which through the Southern states is everywhere designated by 
its name in the Spanish language chinche ,* when it was ascer¬ 
tained that they were a very different insect from the Hessian 
fly of New York, they were definitely distinguished by the name 
chinch bug, or chinch bug fly. It is altogether probable, how¬ 
ever, that the latter was the term by which the winged insects 
were designated, and that the former was the name given to the 
larval; and Kirby and Spence might well be at a loss to under¬ 
stand why the epithet “ fly ” should be given to an insect with¬ 
out wings, as this was represented to be. The name chinch bug 
has now become the established title of this insect, and as the 
same word has been adopted as a specific name in Natural His- 
tory (e. g. Argas chinche , Gervais) it would be the most appro¬ 
priate scientific designation for this species, had it not already 
received a different one. 
The chinch bug was first scientifically named and described by 
Mr. Say, in a pamphlet (page 14) entitled “ Descriptions of New 
Species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America,” pub¬ 
lished at New Harmony, Indiana—the eight first pages of which 
appeared in the year 1831, the remainder the following year. 
This insect must have been much more rare throughout our 
* ^ or f u 'l philological Information respecting this word and its use at the South I am under 
0 ^8 a tioni to W. F. Brand, Eaq. of Eiperton, Maryland. 
