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Feb. 26, 1864 
Larva in salicis [podagrae] ^batatas^ [[underlined]] galls (recent) is deep orange color - almost sanguineous - Cutting into old last years bored galls, found several pale greenish white larvae. (Inquilines? [Bred from these galls no Cecid. but Chalcidoidae]
In one of the small [[underline next]] salicis podagrae batatas [[end underline]] galls found a Tenthred.? larva, pale greenish white. Guests. 
Found on the bluffs [[underlined]] a single spongifica [[underlined]] gall on a small black [[underlined]] (?) oak (dead) 2 inches at butt, 1/2 mile beyond lib.-4 maculata corner.
Galls (terminal) {S. [[? underlined]] on pussy willow [[image]] one contained an orange-color cecidom. [[strike: Cynip]] larva in cocoon just like strobilanae cocoon.

Feb. 28. Found a {s. rhodoides} [[strike: pussy-willow brassic.]] gall, where a Lepid. larva had eaten thro to central cell & destroyed it. At the base [[underlined]] of an old  half rotten gall [[image]] found several orange colored [[image]] larvae, probably dipterous, embedded in cells in the moist decayed matter, the appearance of "intestines" (p.74) ^(only in one specimen)^ caused (no!) by very numerous Chalcide ? larvae inside, visible on pricking the skin & slowly squeezing out the contents. In one gall [[strike two unreadable names]] rhodoides gall found no [[underlined]] cocoon, but the hollow as usual, & a white-hyaline hairy [[underlined]] larva ^about .13 long, &^ parasitic? Hence it must be a true cocoon & not a mere vegetable production
In this gall cocoon is {^mistake^ not abruptly truncate at top, as in S. strobilanae galls, but it is, as in that gall, 2 1/2 times as long as larva [[symbol]] R.R. galls
In the same [[underline next]] salicis [podagrae] batatas] [[end underline]] gall found one orange color & several whitish [[underlined]] larvae. [[strike: Inguilines]] Parasites
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March 1. Larva of [[underline next]] salicis siliquae [[end underline]] ^= C. rigida O.S.^ is  pale sanguineous orange, freckled with bright sanguineous .18 long. A silky whitish cocoon -
Anthonomus scutellatus Schonk bred from willow=twig gall [[image]] (summer of?) 1863. March '64 found in same gall a whitish apod larva; [[symbol?]] The same?
March 5. Diastrophus? larva - ^(2 in one gall)^ straight, 4 [[strike: 1/2]] times as long as wide, pale orange, .15 long - Body apparently 9 sd.- + head. In other galls ^several  (5 or 6)^ whitish-hyaline aulax (?) larvae .06 long, of normal shape, 2 or 3 in a gall.
March 6 "q. tuber" galls on laurel oak contained whitish-hyaline Cynipide-inguiline (?) larvae on the Salix nigra near Sandy Ford no [[underlined]] galls of any kind but the "Merodosia fuzz"
March 6. Cut into many [[image]] willow twig galls near Chippiannock. Some, both bored & unbored, contained the greenish tenthred. larva, one of wch had spun its cocoon. Some were full of the cork-[[?]], ^From some the^ uneaten ^Tenthred. had gone out^ [[arrow to lower page reads]] leaving its tracks. [[return to line]] One contained a small whitish larva [[image]] - parasite? or Anthonomus scutellatus? See above.
March 6. Found many of the Sal. {amaranthus [[strike: gnaphelioides]]} galls had been dug into sideways. (by birds?) They contain now a [[strike: cynipidous]]^cecidomyious^ larva.
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