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[[start page]] 67) 17th Sep. A larva of P. Turnus went to pupa & [[underline]] suspended [[/underline]] itself, not spinning any loop. Had been a little injured in the nuchal fork & near it. [Devoured by Dermestide before maturing] Sep. 23 The remaining Planorbis & 3 more I had grown the Tabanide larva all devoured. Shells empty. Gave him fresh water & a lot [[mon?]] 12 - 15. Sep 30. Saw him into another Planorbis. [[insertion]] between Sep. 23 & 30th had eaten [[underline]] 6 [[/underline]] planorbis [[/insertion]] [[line]] Sep. 29 Dr. Parry's niece informed me of an insect (like [[strikethrough]] Re [[/strikethrough]] Pirates picipes she thought) being taken out of the [[underline]] ear [[/underline]] of a [[piesid?]], where it had staid 6 weeks. She thought Dr. Fountain had the insect preserved. [Could not get to see this insect.] [[line]] A Papilio turnus larva has suspended itself by the [[underline]] tail [[/underline]]. It was a little injured in the nuchal fork & in the larva state [[line]] [[newspaper clipping:]] The Utica Observer says that the hop crop is generally picked in Southern Oneida and Madison, some in poor condition, from blight and the plague of lice, a pest which made its first appearance on the vines of this locality the present year. [[/clipping]] Rural N.Y. Oct 10, '63 [[line]] The Elephant is sd to be retromingent & to copulate by backing up together [[line]] Westw. (II. 239 [[insertion]] ^ - 40 [[/insertion]]) describes larva of odynerus with a body of 13 segments, 1st & 2 last without spiracles. Probably the 1st so called segment is analogous to the "supernumerary false segment" in Bibio & Cecidomyia. (See above p. 67) The so-called 2 - 11 are figured by Westwood as bearing spiracles. Fig 87.5 [[end page]] [[start page]] 68) Oct 25. Bred 4 [[underline]] Cynips q. aciculata [[/underline]] from galls gathered [[underline]] very [[/underline]] early spring: 3 of them shell thinnish, one shell [[underline]] very [[/underline]] thin, as thin as any seen by me. Preserved it. It had also a distinct nipple at tip. [See Sep. 17th]. Bred also 3 other from galls gathered early in spring or summer, one of which had a decided nipple. [[line]] [[strikethrough]] Omophron [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] [[strikethrough]] If [[underline]] spongifica & aciculate [[/underline]] are distinct species, why sd. they occur in the same locality, when 99 out of 100 localities have [[underline]] neither [[/underline]] species? If [[underline]] aciculata [[/underline]] does not propagate by parthenogenesis [[insertion]] ^ or otherwise [[/insertion]], then diposition to [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] propagate that type of the insect wd run out in a course of many generations. [[insertion]] ^ [But it does not run out in honey-bee *] [[/insertion]] [[underline]] Aciculata [[/underline]] [[insertion]] ^ I believe [[/insertion]] lays eggs which produce perhaps [[2 male symbols]] only or chiefly [[2 male symbols]]; & those couple with the produce of [[underline]] spongifica [[/underline]] in June. [[strikethrough]] Seems in [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ It is [[/insertion]] [[underline]] possible [[/underline]] [[insertion]] ^ also [[/insertion]] that aciculata [[female symbol]] (coming out in [[insertion]] ^ April or [[/insertion]] May) may live till June, when [[male symbol]] spongifica come out. My [[male and female symbols]] spongifica in gauze bags lived but a short time. The rains &c of summer wd. naturally take off the "bloom" from the spring oak-apples. [[line]] In honey-bee workers [[underline]] occasionally [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] [[may]] [[/strikethrough]] lay drone-eggs. Bevans apcid. Westw. II 279 [[/strikethrough]] [[end page]]
