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 nymph, but have however arrived at their 
perfect state, and propagate their kind. This species has been 
named the Locusta ephippiger. ‘There are even other species of which 
the females at least are without wings or elytra, and which perfectly 
resemble the larva of the Locust ; such are the species named Locusta 
aptera and Locusta Puppa by Fabricius. But I am more inclined to 
consider the Saddle-loeust, or the Locusta ephippiger, 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 ephippiger 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. Cantharis of the Geoponies— Ninth Cantharis of Aldrovandus. 
—Rhynchites Bacchus, or Rhynchites Betuleti, or Attelabus of the Vine. 
—Beemar-Diableau.—Lisette, and Green Velvet ( Velowrs vert) of the 
Vine-dressers.— The Coleoptera or Scarabei which destroy the Vine, 
and do not answer to the Cantharides of the Geoponics——Lethrus Cepha- 
lotes— Gray Curculiones (Charansons).—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 Geoponies 
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 Cantharis was employed by the Greeks, as well as by the Latins, 
as the designation of the Coleoptera or Scarabzi 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 Mylabris of the endive, the Mylabris Cichorii of 
modern naturalists, so well described by Dioscorides ; and the Lytta or 
Meloé vesicatoria, the Cantharides of our apothecariest. Among the 
second, or those which are very small, is the Scarabeus parvus Can- 
tharis dictus of Pliny which infests corn, which is the Cureulio grana- 
* Latreille in Cuvier’s Régne Anim., vol. v. p. 63. Oliv. Coléop. iii. p. 47. 
pl. 1. Schcenherr, Synonymia, 1817, 8vo, p. 31. Mylabris, vol. i. part iii. 
p- 31. .Oliv., Znt. iii. 47, 7. vol. i. fig. b, c. 
+ Latreille in Cuvier, vol. v. p. 67. Schoenherr, Synonymia, vol. i. p. 20. 
