SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS. 



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Article IX. concluded. 



Researches relative to the Insects, knmvn to the Ancients and 

 Moderns, hy which the Vine is infested, and on the Means of 

 2)reventing their Ravages; hy M. le Baron Walckknaer, 

 Hon. Memh. of the Entomological Society of France. 



From the Aiinales de la Socicte Entomologlque de France, vol. iv. p. 711, et scq., 

 and vol. v. p. 219, et seq. : read Nov. 18, 1835, 



VIII. Cantliaris — JjiRECTIONS are given in the Geoponics* for 

 preventing Cantharides from injuring the vine : these insects are to be 

 macerated in oil, and the plant rubbed with the preparation. 



Another reci]3e for the preservation of the vine is given in Palladius, 

 for which the Cantharides of the rose are required ; they are to be ma- 

 cerated in oil until an unctuous liniment is formed, with which the 

 branches are to be rubbedf . 



The name Cantliaris occurs very frequently in several Greek and 

 Latin authors without any mention of the vine. Pliny, hoAvever;]:, says, 

 " Verrucas Cantharides cum uva taminia intrita exedunt" — " Can- 

 tharides pounded with the uva taminia destroy m arts." 



The Uva taminia, which we translate by wild grape, is, I apprehend, 

 unknown ; it is certaiidy not the fruit of the vine. 



It would be superfluous to produce here the numerous passages of 

 the ancient authors in which the word Kantliaris occurs, because there 

 can be no doubt as to its signification. They all prove evidently that 

 the ancients understood by this word, not the larvas of insects, but 



* Geopnnica, edit. Niclas, 1781, 8vo, p. 418. ch. 49. 

 t Palladius, book i. chap. 35 ; vol. i. p 43. Bipontinc edition. 

 J Pliny, book .\xx. chap. 0. 

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