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Medizeval interpretation was as the larva of a Pyralid moth, the 
ips of Aristotle, convolvulus of Pliny, volucra of Columnella, 
involvulus of Plautus. These beasts were principally known to 
the Romans from those which webbed up the grape leaves. We 
can catch a vague clue from the wording in Jeremiah, LI, 27, 
where it is called “rough.” This might mean hairy. In Reve- 
lations, IX, 3, a highly allegorical passage, there is mentioned 
locusts having power like scorpions, shaped like horses, teeth 
like lions, and “hair as the hair of women.” The Arabs keep 
this as a popular superstition, having several words to describe a 
hairy locust. If any word in the Old Testament, sometimes re- 
garded as meaning some kind of Orthopterous crop pest, might 
be properly a lepidopterous larva it is surely this jelek, a hairy 
caterpillar commending itself to the simple early observers as 
such, no other description being so terse and applicable. 
As solam occurs once only, it can be judged only by the context 
as a flying, creeping thing, permissible as food, and mentioned in 
Orthopterous company. All commentators agree in placing it as 
a Gryllus or locustid. 
The last of the words possibly meaning a locust i is the tzaltzal, 
mentioned only in Deuteronomy, XXVIII, 42, “all thy trees and 
fruit shall the locust consume.” The onomatopcea of the name 
suggest the orthopteron, but one wonders why a new name for 
something so like the arbeh or gob. The Chaldean Targum 
translates as zebub, the general term for insect. 
KEY FOR THE SPECIFIC IDENTIFICATION OF THE 
FEMALES OF THE DIPTEROUS GENUS HYDROTAA 
FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA. 
‘By JOR MArtoca. Urbana, 1k 
The key presented herewith includes all species of Hydrotea 
which have been recorded as occurring in North America with 
the exception of bispinosa Zetterstedt, and cressoni Malloch. I 
have seen no examples of bispinosa from this country. <A speci- 
men in our collection so named by Coquillett, is metatarsata 
