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8) segment, [[strikethrough]] which is [[/strikethrough]] lighter beneath. A retractile thorn, 1/20 long, at tip of tail, [[image - drawing of insect broken up into 12 segments]] Head small & not perceptibly horny or with any hooks. Burrows with great strength between the fingers, & walks on a smooth table fast & with ease. Skin very transparent, & as he progresses slides backwards & forwards over his internal organs like the finger of a glove. Head & first segment or two retractile. Tubercles not retractile. [[insertion]] bred June or July, a Tabanus [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] Between March and April changed to a pupa not distinguishable from that of Tipula hiviltala S. & same size. [pupa died & preserved] [[/strikethrough]] mistake Sep. 19. Noticed on ears of sweet corn infested with Chinch bug in imago & larva states, hippodamia [[insertion]] blood red [[/insertion]] maculata Degeer, coccinella munda Say [[insertion]] "no spot" [[/insertion], & two species of scymnus _ one black & one black with rufous tail. Noticed one [[underlined]] pupa [[/underlined]] of coccinellid also. R. V. Ankeny Rio Grande, Freeport, Stephenson Co found his backsowing of wheat (which was uphill) free from Chinch bug all over the field. (in case - from stranger)- sown thicker or thinner? B.D.W. Nov. 1860 Noticed under log on Rock Island, in a hollow of the earth a [[strikethrough]] round [[/strikethrough]] ^spherical mass of a ^[[insertino]] common [[/insertion]] black myrmica 2 1/2 to 3 in in diam, enclosing [[underlined]] in their midst [[/underlined]] a lot of larva. No larva visible outside, [[end of page]] [[start of page]] 9) [[staple marks indicate missing insertion]] like larva of stratiomys in Westwood [Came out a stratiomys ] May 15? 61 noticed the 14-footed wood feeding noctuid larva (of which I have had a pair) when attacked by the common black myrmica, thrust itself spitefully round & seize 20 of them, one after the other in its jaws & kill them, exuding a black juice at the same time from its mouth. One which had attacked it on top of its neck, it shook off by violent contorsions & then killed. May 20. Bred a Telephorus [[strikethrough]] cinereous dytra, yellow tho-rax & black disk [[/strikethrough]] Carolina from a pupa found under white elm bark amongst larva of cerambycid & Tenebreonids. Preys on them? May 21. Melandrya striata? 5. 4 or 5 found in rotten sapwood of bass & several pupa? of it. May 22 {same under oak Leptis? trifasciata? imago under bass-bark. My two pupa? the same species? Dendroides (with rufous & black legs) found hitherto under oak bark, imago or pupa. Today 3 imagos under bass bark. [[end of page]]