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The lophocampha [strikethrough]] is [[strikethrough]] common on oak, thorn, hickory, (?) bass, &c [[strikethrough]] & [[strikethrough]] has on 1st segment 2 black pencils, beneath [[^ each of ]] which 2 white pencils; on 2nd segm 2 black pencils, beneath each of which 1 white pencil; ditto on segment 11. , white pencil then less obvious.  General color varies from dirty whitish to almost fuscous-cinereous & from yellowish to yellowish brown. Imago agrees with description of lophocampa tessellaris, which feeds on [[underline]] Sycamore [[underline]]. Cannot be lophocampa caryae, which has black pencils on [[underline]] 4th [[underline]]  & [[underline]] 10th [[underline]] segm, nor the unbred larva ment'd by Harris after [[underline]] Carya [[underline]], for that has no black pencils on 3rd segment.

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Mr. Lighton tells me that Corydalis cornutus deposited its eggs on the glass-windows [[underline]] next the river [underline]] of the floating Daguerrean saloon .. it is aquatic.

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On Hickory Sep 28 a caterpillar 1 1/2 inch long; Head honey yellow - mouth & legs black - Body tawney with fuscous dots & lines next the sutures, above a lateral sanguineous stripe. Spiracles are just above this lateral stripe, & are white surrounded by black. Segm. 1 [[^ & 2]] with long tawney hair arising from 6 warts & extending much beyond the mouth; segm. 3-5 with [[^ dense truncate tawny]] brushes arising from these warts, about 10th inch long; segm. 11 with 4 such brushes, 2 middle ones 1/5 inch long. Other segments with a few divaricate hairs from 6 warts. A yellow dorsal line. Placed in new Dirt Cage. [died or failed]

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The [[female symbol]] of Lachnus Caryae lays eggs about .1 long, 2 1/2 as long as wide, cylindrical rounded at end, testaceous or pale mahogany. The [[2 female symbols]] (6 or 8) never seem to acquire wings; 
to Oct 9th 1862

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The larva of Danais plexippus is fasciate with yellow & black & [[? written over]]towards ant'r & post'r. ends of body has a pair of [[underline]] moveable [[underline]] [[image]] black filaments about 1/4 inch long. Westw. II. p345

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