BY WHICH THE VINE IS INFESTED. 201 



There is in particular one species which has a deeply excavated corselet 

 raised at the back like a saddle ; this corselet hides the sonorous and 

 vaulted elytra, which are very short, and do not serve for flying. 

 These locusts resemble nymphai, but have however arrived at their 

 perfect state, and propagate their kind. This species has been 

 named the Locusta epMppiger. There are even other species of Avhich 

 the females at least are Avithout wings or elytra, and which perfectly 

 resemble the larva of the Locust ; such are the species named Locusta 

 aptera and Locusta Pupjia by Fabricius. But I am more inclined to 

 consider the Saddle-locust, or the Locusta ejjhipjnger, as the Gaza of 

 the Bible, than either of the two other species that I have mentioned. 

 Of all the species of creeping locusts the ephipjnger is that which I 

 have most frequently found upon the vine, though never in sufficient 

 abundance to produce much injury ; and it cannot be classed with the 

 true insects of the vine, neither is it mentioned as such in Scripture. 



VI. Cantlmris of the Geoponics Ninth Cantharis of Aldrovandus. 



— Rhynchites Bacchus, or Rhynchites Betuleti, or Attelabus oftlve Vine. 

 — Becmar-Diableau. — Lisette, and Green Velvet ( Velours vert) of the 

 Vine-dressers, — The Coleoptera or ScarabcBi which destroy the Vine, 

 and do notansiverto the Cantharides of the Geopoiiics. — Lethrus Cepha- 



lotes Gray Cureidioiies (Cheiransons). — The ancient authors give the 



name of Cantharis to the insects which they employed when pounded 

 as an ingredient of the liniment or unguent with which they anointed 

 the vine to protect it from injurious insects ; but it is in the Geoponics 

 alone, when treating of this employment of Cantharides, that we are 

 informed that these insects were engendered in the vine, and were de- 

 structive to it ; and the author or authors of this compilation only give 

 the recipe of Cantharides macerated in oil as a remedy for the disas- 

 ters which these insects themselves produce*. We have seen that the 

 word Cantlmris was employed by the Greeks, as well as by the Latins, 

 as the designation of the Coleoptera or Scarabsei in general ; that this 

 name was often applied to the brilliantly-coloured Coleoptera, or those 

 possessing corrosive or vesicating properties ; and that it was also used 

 as the name of insects, whether of large or small dimensions, which 

 were rendered remarkable by their destructive effects. Of the first we 

 have noticed the Mylahris of the endive, the Mylabris Cichoni of 

 modern naturalists, so well described by Dioscorides ; and the Lytta or 

 Mehe vesicatoria, the Cantharides of our apothecariesf . Among the 

 second, or those which are very small, is the Scarahceus parvus Can- 

 tharis dictus of Pliny which infests corn, which is the Curculio grana- 



• Latreille in Cuvier's Regne Jtiiin., vol. v. p. G3. Oliv. Coleop. iii. p. 47. 

 pi. 1. Schcenhcrr, Synonymia, 1817, 8vo, p. 31. Alylahris, vol. i. part iii. 

 p. 31. Oliv., Ent. iii. 47, 7. vol. i. fig. h, c 



t Latreille in Cuvier, vol. v. p. G7. Schauiherr, Synonymia, vol. i. p. 20. 



