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18) each segment except 2 [[superscript]] nd [[/superscript]] & 3 [[superscript]] rd [[/superscript]] first a transverse row of 5 shiny black nipples each bearing a hair, & 2 [[superscript]] nd [[/superscript]], a row of 4 do. arranged in quincunx on 2 [[superscript]] nd [[/suerpscript]] & 3 [[superscript]] rd [[/superscript]] segments a [[strikethrough]] :. [[/strikethrough]] [[image - a triangle]] of nipples [[image - diagram of dot arrangement]] on each side followed by a single row of 6 dorsal ones. On the one specimen, which is generally lighter colored, these nipples ^ [[insertion]] generally [[/insertion]] are more or less obsolete. Legs 16. [[line]] Larva of [[underlined]] Phycita? nebulo. Walsh [[/underlined]]. Length 1/2 inch. Color greenish brown, lighter beneath. Head & body both with long sparse white hairs. Head dull black, with fine confluent punctures & are ^ [[insertion]] slightly impressed [[/insertion]] longitud. line, divaricating in front; 1 [[superscript]] st [[/superscript]] segment horny above. An elevated shining black spot on each side 2 [[superscript]] nd [[/superscript]] segment. Legs 16. [[line]] June 16. Caught Gomphus vastus. Hagen with one of the pied yellow & brown Mississippi Phryganeides in its mouth. (Macronema zebratuus) [[line]] June 17. Since yesterday ^ [[insertion]] one [[/insertion]] of the [[Argyrotoma?]] of the Rosebuds had gone under ground apparently. Two Syrphid larvae, one on Rose, the other currant, Ditto [died..] Of the immature Gomphi captured yesterday, noticed one Vastus & one [new] with the abdomen very much inflated. Wind-colic? The hind thigh of [[male symbol]] vastus [[end page]] [[start page]] (19 is black; of [[female symbol]] basal half greenish yellow. [[line]] August 6. Lusk found among the weeds in his garden a chrysalis about 1 1/2 inch long, cream colored, wingcases spotted with small round fuscous spots. Tip of 4 antepenultimate abd. segments edged with mahogany, antepenult. not so broadly. Spiracles dark colored. [Aug 18 came out Chaerocampa chaerilus?] [[line]] [[line]] Aug. 7 Examined Prionocyphon jar. 8 or 10 larvae still alive - put 3 in alcohol - bred these 5 to 10 minutes. No pupa or imago's [[line]] In the hind wings of Leucanea unipuncta, the "arc" of Hagen is not, as in the Neuropt., between the median & submedian nervures, but between the subcostal (or cubital) & the median. Thus:- [[image - pen drawing of wing showing costal, subcost. sectors (loc 2 or 3), median, postcostals]] [[line]] The normal type of a Lepidopt. wing maybe seen beautifully in [[strikethrough]] lower [[/strikethrough]] hind wing of Aegeria, ^[[insertion]] 1 [[superscript]] st [[/superscript]] & 2 [[superscript]] nd [[/superscript]] spec. in Cab [[superscript]] t [[/superscript]]. [[/insertion]] where costal & subcostal are simple & almost coalesce, the sector has [[underlined]] no prolongation [[/underlined]] towards the base & the median is [[strikethrough]] quad [[/strikethrough]] tri-furcate. [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] In some genera costal & subc. are bi- or tri-furcate; in others the sector is partially prolonged towards the base, but is obsolete before it reaches the base: In others the median is [[insertion]] 4- [[/insertion]] furcate & the furcations variously arranged. The neuration
