a West Indian name of the CHIGOE.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., iv. (1818), I. 103. The celebrated Chigoe or Jiggers, called also … Tungua.
1861. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 35. The most annoying species, however, is … a native of the tropical latitudes, variously named in the West Indies, chigoe, jigger, nigua, tungua, pique.
