THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



APRIL, 1837. 



Art. XLIII. — Researches on the Insects injurious to the Vine, 

 knotcn to the Ancients and Moderns, and on the Means of 

 preventing their Ravages. 



By M. Le Baron Walckenaer. 



[Extracted from the Annales de la Soci^t^ Entomologique de France.] 

 (Continued and concluded from p. 144.) 



SECTION II. 



DETERMINATION OF THE SPECIES OF INSECTS INJURIOUS TO 

 THE VINE KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS. 

 REMEDIES AGAINST THEIR ATTACKS. 



I. Preliminary Observations. 



In the first part of these Researches I have examined the 

 passages of ancient writers relating to the names of insects 

 injurious to the vine, in chronological order, where this order 

 did not interfere with their derivation, because that plan ap- 

 peared best calculated to attain the end I had in view. 



No language remains stationary : on the contrary, all, like 

 the people who speak them, are subject to the influences of 

 time, revolutions, and custom. Contemporary writers use the 

 same word with very different significations, either because they 

 are not equally well acquainted with the objects the word is 

 usually intended to designate, or, because they have not the 

 same intention in employing it. The intention of one author 

 may perhaps be best answered by a word being used in its 



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