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Oct 27 Cynips (q. aciculata O.S.) several came out from nippled galls, & from galls covered with nipples all over. In all 11 or 12, came out. 
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Female of Cordulegaster bidentatus seen by Selys to oviposit "on herbage, on land a little marshy but almost deprived of water" in June & July "which proves that the larva can live almost without water". But probably in other months these places were full of water (Mon. Gomph. p. 342 note)
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In Aeschua quadriguttata the basal area has crossveins [[symbol]] all my other Aeschna & Anax. 
[Noticed in Synopsis in A. News.]
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The queen-bee, as Lt. Fargeau well observes, (I. p. 253) being unable to gather pollen, there cannot have been primordially only [[female symbol]] & [[2 neuter symbols]] [[underlined]] afterwards [[/underlined]]. :. Dimorphism primordial
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What [[underlined]] can [[/underlined]] be the use of the [[underlined]] oreillettes [[/underlined]] ^[[insertion]] or anal [[male symbol]] wing-angle [[/insertion]] in Gomphina & Aeschnuia? = tuft on breast [[male symbol]] Turkey.
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Larva {=Ephestia zeae, Fitch (BDW & Clemens) {infesting dried peaches - lepidopterous - 16 - footed - legs normal - length .40 inch, breadth .07 inch. Head rufous, [[strikethrough]] [[image [[/strikethrough]] [[image - pen drawing of head of insect larva]] - 1st segment [[image - pen sketch of segment]] rufous-horny ^[[insertion]] above [[/inesrtion]] interrupted in the middle - rest all yellowish white, with long sparse hairs - ^[[insertion]] legs & prolegs yellowish white [[/insertion]] spins a thread & hangs by it - Dec 17. '63
Also ^[[insertion]] may [[female symbol]] [[male symbol]] [[strikethrough]] [[2 female symbols]] specimens of a small parasitic Braconide Lepidop spins a thin white silken cocoon
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Larva of Silvanus surinamensis found abundantly with the imago in dried peaches has antennae (filiform) as long as the body is wide.
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Honey in abundance is "the production of a small wasp called [[underlined]] Matajeh [[/underlined]], which builds its nests on the branches of the trees in the shape of a large ball. The sting of the insect is so distressing that persons affected by it become feverish & benumbed. Therefore, in order to possess ourselves of its delicious honeycombs, we took the precaution to smoke out the wasps &c. Paez, Wild scenes in 5. & p.345

In the Bay of Maracaibo garden "vegetables are raised on [[underline]] barbacoas [[/underline]], several feet from the ground, for the purpose of protecting the tender shoots from the depredations of red ants. Were this precaution neglected, the entire crop wd. disappear in a single night, the time usually chose by these pernicious insects for their marauding excursions. ibid. p. 390.

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Siobhan:- I've done minor edits only. [[NOTE: This is identical to digital page 70, except for the overlay note]]