One of the escaped convicts may be on the run barefoot — cops found an abandoned pair of boots inside the remote cabin that was their last known hiding spot, a report said on Tuesday.

The boots were discovered along with a pair of prison-issued underwear and a jar of peanut butter in the cabin from which Richard Matt and David Sweat fled in haste last weekend, according to CNN.

It appeared that the convicted killers may have inadvertently left their belongings behind when the cabin owner suddenly arrived and spotted them.

The latest revelation came as searchers battled thick swarms of biting insects while combing a heavily forested area in the Adirondacks.

Kevin Vauter, who has been vacationing in the area since 2001, said trekking through the woods was next to impossible, with not just “all the brush and rain, but the bugs.”

“The bugs are atrocious. You got black flies, deer flies, mosquitoes,” he said.

“After a day of that, I would have just come out and put my arms up like: Take me.”

Meanwhile, a man who owns a cabin just miles from the original sighting told Albany’s WNYT-TV he found his outhouse and storage area unlocked on Tuesday afternoon. He immediately alerted police.