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31) Pal. interpunctata Say - In living insect line under ant. [[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 showed no disposition to feed in October in. & end, & 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. May (middle) would not eat very young oak leaves, & shrivelled & became helpless. Placed it under leaves in Breeding cage.
[[Rest of page empty until the very bottom of page]] [[cross symbol - image]] In one specimen double horns on 5,7,9 & 10 in another [[line]] & rudimental single horns on 6 & 8 [12 joints reckoned, 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. laterally rufous)
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Aug. 6. Saw the harlequin redworm [[?]] (Harpactor 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 birds flesh freely in confinement.
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July 9. Stung by a ^[[Ophron morio]] {anomalon flavicorne} Say 3 pain soon went off. [[image]] The sen [[?]] was not that with 1st [[?]] jt. [[?]] post. tarsi [[underlined]] orange [[/underlined]]. [[symbol for "therefore" - image]] that is [[symbol for male - image]] [a distinct g. osp. Norton]
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July 10. {Beat one off honey locust} Found a [Sphingid] Dryocampid larva - length 1.8 inch - bright [[?]] grat [[?]] green. Laterally from 3rd Unfedium [[?]] to penult. abd. jt. a whitish line bordered above by purple. Scattered whitish [[strikeout]] dobrish [[?]][[/strikeout]] tubercles, very thick toward anus; a regular row at tip of 3 or 4 1st segments. Segments [[strikeout]] [[?]] [[/strikeout]] 2 & 3 of thorax on each side two 1/4 inch long recurved horns, tubercled & bluish purplish at tip. Joints 5,7 & 9 [or 7 & 9] [yes] 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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