wall-louse

The _pinece_ is not originally a native of this country; and that is the reason why, so many years after its first appearance in England, it was known only by a corruption of its French name _punaise_, or its German appellation _wandlaus_ (wall-louse).

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_punice_ or wall-louse; indeed, I am not aware that the modern name of the insect appears in print previous to 1730, when one Southal published _A

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