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their interpretations and systems, while they discarded all 

 such as were opposed to them. 



2. List of the Names of Insects injurious to the Vine, men- 

 tioned by ancient Authors. 



All the vine-insects, or those mentioned in connexion with 

 the vine, which I have been able to find in ancient authors, 

 are the followincf : — 



1. Thola, Tholea, or Tholaat. 



2. Gaza. 



3. Ips. 



4. Iks. 



5. Spondyle, or Sphondyle. 

 G. Cantharis. 



7. Phteire, or Phteira. 



8. Kampe. 



9. Joulos, or Julus. 



10. Biurus, or Bythurus. 



11. Involvolus, Involvulus, 



or Involvus. 



12. Convolvulus. 



13. Volvox. 



14. Voluera. 



15. Eruca. 



3. List of Authorities in which these Names occur, and which 

 consequently will have to be alluded to in this Dissertation. 



4. Thola, or Tholea, or Tholaath. 



This is a Hebrew word : it occurs in Deuteronomy ; where 

 the animal which it desiiijnates is mentioned among the judo-- 

 ments the Israelites are threatened with if they transgress the 

 law of God.'^ The verse in which it occurs is rendered as 

 under, in the translation made from the Greek and Hebrew 

 texts by the pastors and professors of the church of Geneva :'i — 

 " Thou shalt plant vines and dress them, but thou shalt not 



" Deutcronome, xxviii. 29. — ? 39, Translator. 



"^ La Sainte Bible, on, le Vieux et le Nouveau Testameiit, traduit par les Pasteurs 

 et les Professeurs de I'Eglise de Geneve. — Geneve, 1805, 1, i, p. 276. 



