punkies

• Ceratopogonids - Biting midges, also called sand flies, no-see-ums, and punkies, are the smallest of the biting flies.
• I'm all bitten up with punkies, and Fourth Man (savagely).--"Dashed old woods-loafer; let's tie his hands and fire him in the creek O.W. —  Woodcraft
• Sand-flies, however, resembling our "punkies," abound; and the natives are constantly slapping their naked sides, eating the little pests as the Papallactans do their lice. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• Shrill cicadas, blood-thirsty mantucas, piums, punkies, and musquitoes are always associated in the traveler's memory with the glorious river. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• The punkies were eager for his tender skin and they were rank poison to him. —  Woodcraft

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