INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE VINE. ,o2\ 



the habits of Procris Ampelophaga through the Memoir of 

 Passerini. But if the first species is as abundant in Italy 

 as the second, I shall be inclined to consider that it is the 

 one to which the ancients more particularly applied the names 

 Involvolus, Involvidus, Involvus, and Convolvulus. 



9. Kampe. — Eruca. — Caterpillars of Sphinx Elpenor, or 

 Sphinx of the Vine, — of Bombyx Purpurea, or Ecaille Mou- 

 chete, — of Sphinx Porcellus, or the Sphinx with red bands. 



The other caterpillars which are found on the vine, and are 

 occasionally injurious to it as well as to all other plants, do 

 not belong to either the tribes Tortrices or Pyralides, nor to the 

 genus Procris. 



Those which I have most frequently met with on the vine, 

 are the caterpillars of Bombyx Purpurea, Fab., Arctia Purpurea 

 of modern entomologists, the Ecaille Mouchete of Geoftroy, 

 which lives also on the broom and elm and twenty other kinds 

 of plants. 



The Sphinx Elpenor, or the Sphinx of the Vine, (not the 

 Sphinx Vitis of modern entomologists, which is an American 

 insect that does not feed upon the vine,) is pretty often found 

 on the vine, but is as frequently met with on the Epilobium, 

 Salicaria, balsam and bindweed. d 



Lastly, Sphinx Porcellus or Red- banded Sphinx, the cater- 

 pillar of which occurs occasionally on the vine, but still oftener 

 on the honeysuckle and lavender, and especially on Galium 

 verum. e 



The caterpillars of the two last kinds are of the size of the 

 little finger ; and as they frequent the buds, are readily seen 

 and destroyed. 



These are the caterpillars of Lepidoptera, which the Greeks 

 and Romans, in speaking of the insects injurious to the vine, 

 designated by the general names Kampe and Eruca. But they 



c Arctia Purpurea, Fabr. Entom. Syst. t. iii. 1« part. p. 466, No. 185 ; Walck- 

 enaer, Faun. Paris, t. ii. p. 291 ; Godart. Papillons Nocturnes, t. i. p. 339, 

 No. 105. 



d Sphinx Elpenor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. t. iii. p. 372, No. 51 ; Walckenaer, Faun. 

 Paris, t. ii. p. 276, No. 6 ; Godart Crepusculaires, p. 46. 



e Sphinx Porcellus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. t. iii. p. 373 ; Walckenaer, Faun. Paris. 

 t. ii. p. 279 ; Godart Crepusculaires, p. 51 ; Duponchel, Iconographie des Chenilles, 

 Tribu des Spingides, pi. 5, fig. 1, a, b. 



