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[[page start]] 35) Aug. 28 Found many larva of Eumetopona menistra on Thorn, & some on oak - Noticed large brown Asilus fly some yards with a mature [[male symbol]] Adipoda Carolina twice as heavy as itself. It held it face to face [[image - pencil drawing of position of fly]] bees they hold differently: [[image - drawing of insect]] [[line]] Several larva of Eumetopona menistra had Tachinade eggs (white) on their black heads. Could pick them off with finger nail [[line]] Larva (supposed) of Pygora albifrons. (spins above ground) Length 1 1/2 inch. Dorsum a broad [[^ pale]] blue stripe with [[strikethrough]] [[6]] [[strikethrough]] 5 black lines, then a narrow yellow stripe, then a pale blue stripe with 3 black lines, then a yellow stripe, then a [[^ pale]] blue stripe [[^ at origin of legs]] ] with 3 black lines widely interrupted [[strikethrough]] bet [[strikethrough]] at the hind end of each joint. Beneath dull pale green. Head honey yellow. Penultimate segment glabrous honey yellow, with a large tubercle above. [[page end]] [[start page]] 36) [[strikethrough]] Hind [[strikethrough]] Anal pair of prolegs (used in crawling) yellow. Legs & other prolegs yellowish. [[line]] [[image of insect]] (2) on oak - Sep 9th, Length .7 inch. 2 Limacodes scapha on sycamore [[line]] Sep 9. Took 3 or 4 cocoons of Eudamus Tityrus on [[^ Amorpha fruticosa]] [coffee-tree,] leaves of which much eaten. [[line]] * On plum & thorn,[[image/strikethrough?]] caterpillars 2 inch long, with a broad dorsal [[^ fuscous or dark cinereous stripe*]] [[strikethrough]] black stripe [[strikethrough]] [[drawing within brackets]] [[strikethrough]] prolonged laterally on each of the segments {4 of 10} [[^ 2 10]] [[^on those segments]] with (A) scarlet & blue (B) powdered blue. [[strikethrough]] On 11(?) a dorsal black hump. Laterally a broad, milk-white stripe [[^ cut by the prolongation, then a cinerous stripe ]]; beneath greenish. [[^ cinereous?] ] Have three [[^ or 6 ]]: one spun. [[^ No. 1]] Scattered soft whitish hairs. A Lachey = lasiocampada H. Head black, legs normal. [[image scratched out]] *on each segment 4-10 enclosing a rhomboidal black spot prolonged laterally & enclosing two scarlet spots (A) & 2 powdered blue ones (B) [[image showing labeled segments]] [[end page]]