SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS. 
VOL. I.—PART IH. 
ArTIcLE IX. concluded. 
Reseurches relative to the Insects, known to the Ancients and 
- Moderns, by which the Vine is infested, and on the Means of 
preventing their Ravages; hy M.te BAnon WALCKENAER, 
Hon. Memb. of the Entomological Society of France. 
From the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, vol. iv. p. 711, et seq., 
and vol. v. p. 219, et seg.: read Noy. 18, 1835. 
VIII. Cantharis.—_LIRECTIONS 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 recipe 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 rubbed}. 
‘The name Cantharis occurs very frequently in several Greek and 
Latin authors without any mention of the vine. Pliny, however, says, 
“ Verrucas Cantharides cum uva taminia zntrite exedunt,’— “ Can- 
tharides pounded with the wa taminia destroy warts.” 
The Uva taminia, which we translate by wild grape, is, I apprehend, 
unknown; it is certainly not the fruit of the vine. 
It would be superfluous to produce here the numerous passages of 
the ancient authors in which the word Kantharis occurs, because there 
can be no doubt as to its signification. They all prove evidently that 
the ancients understood by this word, not the larvz of insects, but 
* Geoponica, edit. Niclas, 1781, 8vo, p. 418. ch. 49. 
+ Palladius, book i. chap. 35; vol. i. p 43, Bipontine edition. 
t Pliny, book xxx. chap. 9. 
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