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Pupa- [[note in pencil]]a mistake: See below [[/note]]supposed to be of ditto. - [[note in margin/above text: some 20 of them being found in company with it]] Length .4 exclusion of tail, which is .05 long. Closely resembles fig.5 of Westwood (ubi supra) except that dorsal process are merely 2 short nipples [[image - drawing of nipple shape that is a flat line with small bump upwards in the middle]] On each side of head above, on anterior edge, are two distinct shiny horny [[note in pencil above ]] pointed [[/note]] hooks, black, [[image- drawing of hooks]] with the antennae as in larva, but shorter. On top of 3rd segment another pair of similar tubercles. Tail [[image - drawing]] (a) shiny + horny, [[note in pencil]] widely striated longitudinally above + below [[/note] of a light mahogany color, anal (b) part of abdomen + being dirty opake brown, marked [[note in pencil above line]] as well as the rest of body [[/note]] with irregular transverse interrupted dark [[note in pencil above line]] obscure [[/note]] lineations. Feet as in larva, but lateral tubercles + anal process [[strikethrough]] obsol [/strikethrough]]none. Mouth two tubercles, with a hole between.
 [[note in pencil beside start of paragraph]] [ [[/note]] Now if this be a "coarctate" [[strikethrough]] larva [[/strikethrough]]pupa, how come the horny hooks to the head??? of which there is [[underlined]]no vestige whatever [[/underlined]] in the larva. [[note in pencil]]- Mistake.]
  The Pupa attaches itself by its tail to the rotten wood, + a pair that I observed, fall 1859 adhere so closely to a glass bottle [[inserted note about the line]] by a glutinous secretion from whole abdomen [[/note]] that I cannot remove them without injury.
 The tail of larva [[strikethrough]] evidently [[/strikethrough]] can scarcely be intended [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] for respiration, as is said to be the case with similar aquatic larvae. (Westw. ubi supra] [[underline]] Cui bono [[/underline]]? a xylota (osten Sacken) [bred plenty of them] Spring 1861 bred from larva to pupa - larva like pupa but[[??]] [[/pencil note]]
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March 28, 1860. Found two larva (dipterous?) in fibrous debris inside [[pencil note over word]].5[[/note]] the hollow of a felled + hollow [[strikethrough]] soft maple [[/strikethrough]] sycamore. Length 1 1/2 lo 1 3/4 Breadth 5/16. Segments 12, exclusive of head. Head mahogany brown polished + pointed: nearly entirely contractile, with a few hairs. A brown spiracle each side of penultimate [[image - small drawing on right hand side]] segment above. Body somewhat depressed [[note insert above line]]or rather laterally expanded,[[/note]] whey-colored, with the appearance, even to the naked eye, of irregular patches of white eggs[[image - drawing of small circles]] over nearly half the surface, except the 1st + 2nd + partially the 3rd segment. The skin between most of the middle segments, below is contractile + furnished with tubercles (in place of legs?) which entirely disappear at the will of the animal. Placed larvae in large tin pail. [[note in pencil]]In July ^1861^ found [[strikethrough]] larv [[strikethrough]] pupa skin in pail, perhaps Midas filatus (see Harris) -- [[underline]]June or July bred a Midas n. sp [[/underline]] 
Found this winter Polistes (odynerus?) fuscatus [[symbol for female, and an ^(and the yellow species also) [[/note]]]] two specimens under bark. Mr. Jonah Case also informs me that he knows of no social wasps but the yellow-jacket + the baldfaced hornet. Consequently as the [[symbol for male]] hornets all perish before winter, + only the [[symbol for female]] hybernate, it is reasonable to suppose that o. fuscatus is not social, + therefore it cannot be a [[underline]] Polistes [[/underline]] as Dr. [[correction in pencil above]] Harris [[/note]][[strikethrough]]Fitch[[/strikethrough]] calls it. [[note in pencil]] (NY. Ms.[[//]] p. 17) "Bald-faced hornets [[female symbol]] hybernates under very rotten logs; "yellow-jacket" [[female symbol]] under bark of felled trees.
Left off Ichneumonida with "Cryptus" Say II 688 - thence to [[underline]]p. 704 [[/underline]]Unworked through.[[/pencil note]] - worked thro Heteropt. to I. p. 314 [[end page]]