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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. 
This 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 cockchaffer, 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 publications, 
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 TIemiptera, 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 horn-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 
“ e frequently mentioned in the agricultural publications of this 
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