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Pal. interpunctata Say - In living insect hue under aut. [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] arcuated [[image - arc over small circle]] (as Hagen says) not angulated Say) - eyes yellow - black dividing line -
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A geometer caterpillar (oak?) 1 1/2 or 1 3/4 long shewed no desposition to feed in October in. Yew, & remains (Nov. 9)[[image - pen drawing of caterpillar]] on the left upper side of the wire breeding-cage.
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Dec 14 shifted its place to right further corner & was lively. Feb 9 exactly in same place.
[[Indented to right hand side]] May (middle) would not eat very young oak leaves, & shrivelled & became helpless. Placed it under leaves in Breeding cage. [[/indented]]
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[[image - cross]] in one specimen double horns on 5, 7, 9 & 10 in another [[line]] & rudimental single horns on 6 & 8 [12 joints sectioned, head = 0]
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July 27
Found a mass of cottony cocoons on willow leaf, which produced Aug 1. [[underlined]] 167 [[/underlined]] microgaster (3rd abd. jt. lateraly rufous)
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Aug. 6. Saw the harlequin reduviad (Harpaetor cinctus F.) on a flower sucking juices of a clay-bank Halictus
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Dr. Velie found the remains of a blue bird in the nest of a flying squirrel the bones all polished. They ate [[short vertical line]] bird flesh freely in confinement.
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July 9. Stung by an [[insertion]] Ophion morio [[/insertion]]
{anomalon flavicorne} Say; pain soon went off. [[image - pencil sketch of hand pointing to right]] The sen was not that with 1st. [[Ic?]] post tarsi [[underlined]] orange [[/underlined]] :. that is [[male symbol]]. [a distinct g. o sp.] Norton
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July 10 {Found a [Sphingid] larva [[insertion]] beat one off honey-locust. [[/insertion]] - length 1.8 inch - ^ [[insertion]] light gray [[/insertion]] green. [[insertion]] Dryocamped [[/insertion]] Laterally from 3rd [[?]] to penult. abd. jt. a whitish hind bordered above by purple. Scattered whitish [[strikethrough]] [[lobrioa?]] [[/strikethrough]] tubercles, very thick toward anus; a regular row at ? [[strikethrough]] tail [[/strikethrough]] tip of 3 or 4 1st segments. Segments 2 ^ [[insertion]] & 3 [[/insertion]] of thorax on each side two ^[[insertion]] 1/4 inch [[/insertion]] long recurved horns, tubercled & {bluish purplish at tip-joints {or 7 & 9 [[underlined]] 5 [[/underlined]] 7 } [[double underlined]] [yes] [[/double underlined]] each side with two silvery horns see opposite. [In one specimen on 5, 7 & 9 & a single lateral silver horn on 10.
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[[overwritten]] "Sphingicarpa disfigura" [[/overwritten]]Transcription Notes:
It appears that large blank spaces on the page might have had something (a clipping or a drawing) pinned to it but which have been subsequently lost.
Have transcribed what looks like Helplefs as helpless as the f is an archaic way of writing two s's
