A species of flying beetle.
1849. The dor-bugs hummed through the tent.—Parkman, ‘The Oregon Trail,’ p. 42. (N.E.D.)
1872. All plain enough, I do not doubt, to those accustomed to handling dor-bugs and squash-bugs and such undesirable objects of affection to all but naturalists.—Holmes, ‘The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,’ chap. ix.
