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81) X "The larva of [[underline]] Cecid. terminalis Lw. [[/underline]] sometimes goes under ground & sometimes transforms within the willow leaves deformed by it" Loew Dipt. p. 184 note. [[line]] [[strikethrough]] [Hugh Miller] "fell short of that highest faith which knows that all truths must harmonize; & which is therefore content trustfully to follow the evidence whithersoever it leads". Herbert Spencer's Illustrations of Universal Progress. [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] [[strikethrough]] As so-called coarctate cocoon of Cecidomyia have no transverse impressions, it cannot be a [[underline]] coarctate [[/underline]] pupa. O.S. quotes an author who says Cec. pupa [[underlined]] exudes [[/underlined]] not [[underlined]] spins [[/underlined]] its cocoon. This explains all. [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] Apr. 10. 3 or 4 [[underlined]] Cecidomyia ^[[insertion]] s. [[strikethrough]] podagre [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] [[rufiventris?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]] ^[[insertion]] batatas [[/insertion]] bred from S. podagra galls. Found on [[strikethrough]] one or [[/strikethrough]] two of the large [[image - pencil drawing of gall on branch]] galls ^[[insertion]] 5 or 6 [[/insertion]] pupae-skins half enserted from holes in them. Preserved them with the insects on card. [[line]] [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] Cecidomyia [[/underline]] is to [[underline]] Nematas [[/underline]] what the Inqulines are to the Pseuides. [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] Apr. 12. Cecidomyia [[strikethrough]] strobil [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] RR. brassic. [[/underline]] one ^[[insertion]] + 2 [[/insertion]] still in larva ^[[insertion]] one tinged with yellow, 2 immaculate white & parasite? different shape & smaller [[/insertion]], one ^[[insertion]] + 2 [[/insertion]] in pupa. Abd. ^[[insertion]] pupa [[/insertion]], orange ^[[insertion]] tinged with sanguineous (one) [[/insertion]], rest bright sanguineous. Length .16 inch. Horns at base of antennae [[image - pencil sketch of pupa horns]] very minute. Head of the pupa lies upwards. [[line]] In Cecid. [[strikethrough]] rufiventris [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] s. batatas [[/insertion]] 2nd vein does not attain the tip of the wing so nearly as in Strob. & [[strikethrough]] pupey trap [[/strikethrough]] rhodoides. In all three [[underline]] in certain lights [[/underline]] 3rd vein joining 4th [[image - sketch showing veins joining]]. Strob. is same species as [[strikethrough]] pupy - brafs [[craniboides?]] [[/strikethrough]] rhodoides No! [[end page]] [[start page]] (82 Willows No 1., ^[[insertion]] South of [[/insertion]] Rail road culvert, ^[[insertion]] near thorn - tree [[/insertion]] just south [[insertion]] [[underlined]] discolor [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] of Switch ([[female symbol]] flower April 9.) Galls on this willow = s. podagrae [[curly bracket]] No. 2. Rail road Culvert. α) lst bush, β) 2nd bush less mature? both [[female symbol]]? Yes, & = strobiloides. S [[underline]] Cordata [[/underline]] [[line]] No. 3 Strobiloides willow, Bluff field [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] (bush near Chippiannock [[male symbol]], [[strikethrough]] ) [[/strikethrough]] larger specimen) = No. 2 [[/curly bracket]] [[line]] No. 4 ^[[insertion]] [[underline]] discolor? [[/underline]] [[/insertion]] Last willow towards NW near RR. Culvert (tall) (apparently = No. [[strikethrough]] 4 [[/strikethrough]] 1 May 7th) [[insertion]] June 11th foliage is identical on comparison. [[/insertion]] [[line]] No. 5. Brassicoides willow = flowers May 7th. [[underline]] longifolia [[/underline]] [all 1 - 5 ^[[insertion]] & 7 [[/insertion]] flower before leaf; 6 does not] No. 6 Salix [[underline]] nigra [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] Merodosia fuzz gall No. 7 Salix [[strikethrough]] tristis [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] [[underline]] humilis [[/underline]] [[/insertion]] Bluff [flowering specimens from near Railroad ^[[insertion]] in [/insertion]] Dunlap's field [2 = 3, & 1 = 4, :. 5 species in all] NB. May 7. The row of [[underline]] tall [[/underline]] willows beneath the R.R. embankments & East of it, is [[underline]] S. nigra [[/underline]] & has the [Aphidan] ^[[insertion]] S. aenigma [[/insertion]] galls in abundance. NB. Apr 27. Salix [[strikethrough]] nigra [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] of brassicoides gall [[/insertion]] (Sandy ford Slough) only one tree a little out in leaf & showing young catkins. Rest still bare. [[strikethrough]] April [[/strikethrough]] May 1st. This as well as others mixed on Rock River bank with nigra is the brassicoides sp. Salix (R.R.) brassicoides a little out in leaf & showing young catkins.
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@siobhanleachman - April 10th entry is fraught to transcribe but if you carefully read all the underlined, insertions and strikethroughs I THINK it makes sense!
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