144 ADDITIONAL NOTES 



This interpretation, which we think is the correct one, will 

 occasion us to remark the singular fact, that, with the exception 

 of the Vulgate translation of the Bible, and that of St. Jerome 

 in Latin, where the word gaza is erroneously rendered eruca, 

 the word eruca has never been used by the Romans, in a 

 Latin form, for an animal particularly injurious to the vine. 

 Pliny and Columella make frequent mention of the eruca, as 

 being destructive to trees and plants in general, without ex- 

 cepting the vine, but they do not speak of it as injurious to 

 the vine in particular ; and when Palladius, in the passage we 

 have quoted, gives a specific against the caterpillars that injure 

 the vine, we see he employs the word campce, and not erucce. 



This would incline us to conclude that, amongst the number 

 of names used by the Romans for insects injurious to the vine, 

 there do not occur any which were applied to caterpillars, or 

 the larvae of Lepidoptera ; and we may presume that the 

 insects which destroyed the vine, mentioned by the names 

 involvidus, convolvulus, volvox, volucrce, were considered by 

 them as particular kinds of worms, or insects, and not as the 

 larvae of Lepidoptera, or caterpillars, or creatures of the same 

 kind as the campce and erucce, and consequently that the 

 Romans were not acquainted with the metamorphoses of these 

 insects. 



In this critical examination, I have been careful to omit no 

 words made use of to designate insects injurious to the vine in 

 those Hebrew, Greek, and Roman writings, which remain to 

 us. We now come to the second part of this discourse, in 

 which modern science will enable us to illustrate passages of 

 ancient authors, and where we shall also give some practical 

 instructions on the subject likely to be useful to the agricul- 

 turist. 



(To be continued.) 



Art. XV. — Additional Notes on the Order Thysanoptera. 

 By A. H. Haliday, M.A. 



{See Vol. III. page 439.) 



The insects of this order are sometimes infested by Ocypete; 

 and Thr. cerealium is often covered with the small white mites 

 that arc found in damp hay. 



