INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE VINE. 137 



often used the Greek word in preference, when they have had 

 occasion to speak of the caterpillar. 



Palladius, speaking of a method of destroying the insects 

 that infest the vine and pot-herbs, for which purpose he 

 recommends that the stalks of garlic should be burnt in the 

 gardens, and that the knives used in pruning the vine should 

 be rubbed with garlic, says: — " Campas fertur evincere qui 

 fusticulos allii sine capitibus per horti omne spatium combu- 

 rens, nidorum locis pluribus excitavit. Si contra easdem 

 vitibus voluerimus consulere. Allio trito falces putatoriae 

 feruntur unguendae."i 



Columella, having occasion to speak of the devastations 

 committed by the caterpillar, twice makes use of the word 

 campe : — 



'/ Nee solum teneras audent erodere frondes 

 Implicitus conchae limax, hirsutaque campe.''^ 



And afterwards — 



" Non alitur quam decussa pluit arbora nimbus 

 Vel teretes mali, vel tectze cortice glandis, 

 Volvitur ad terram distorto corpore campe." 



It is, therefore, clearly shown, that it is among caterpillars, 

 or the larvffi of Lepidoptera, or butterflies, that we must look 

 for the hampes which, according to the Geoponicks, breed in 

 and are injurious to the vine. 



11. Phteire. 



We know that this Greek word was applied to an insect 

 parasitical on man — the louse; but it is questionable whether 

 Ctesias,* and the author of the Geoponicks, intended to indi- 

 cate by this word all kinds of vermin injurious to the vine, 

 including the kampes, or caterpillars, or one insect in particular, 

 which was very small, and was, by reason of its diminutive 

 size, considered by husbandmen as the louse of the vine. 

 This we shall have to examine. 



' Palladius, dans les Scriptores de Re Rustica, edit. Biponti, torn. i. p. 43. 



■• Columell. de Cultu Hort. vers. 324, torn. i. p. 410, edit. Biponti, 1787, 

 in 8vo. 



' Columell. de Cultu. Hort. liv. x. vers. 366. Gesner dans son Dictionnairc, cite 

 aussi Sextus Empiricus, torn. xiv. au sujet du mot Campe. 



' Ctesias Indicorum, cap. 21, p. 253, ed. Boehr. Francof. 1824, in 8vo. 



