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Oct 20. Found many galls of C. confluens Harris (aciculata o.s.) vacated; in ^ [[insertion]] 10 [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] 9 [[/strikethrough]] found imago; only in [[underlined]] one [[/underlined]] larva.
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Oct. 21 Found a larva of Arctia isabella all tawny red except some black behind the head.  Occurred among many normal ones Put in alcohol.
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^ [[insertion]] Oct. [[/insertion]] Milk white cocoon from Dr. Velie
Larva 2 to 2-1/2 inch long, nearly as thick as his finger - grass-green, each segment with a lateral dot & also a thin oblique streak of [[underlined]] burnished gold [[/underlined]] (ita) [[image - pencil drawing]] Fed hazel [[image]] or found on it [[strikethrough]] Eggar moth? [[/strikethrough]] [Came out a Polyphemus July 1st] 
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Nov 9. Noticed "Coccus Harrisii" on crab-trees on Bluff (long row, near J. Case's Corner, South end. (Not many; on "leaf-blight" trees.
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Of an iguana, kept in captivity near Rio. "When the winter (a winter like the [[strikethrough]] North [[/strikethrough]] latter part of a Northern May) began, he became nearly torpid, & remained without eating for 4 months." Fletcher's Brazil & the Bo. [[?]] p. 294 (from a lady).
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R.N.Y. Jan 3. '63
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LOCATION of Ag. COLLEGELS. - Will you please inform me, through the columns of the Rural, where the different Agricultural Colleges are situated? and oblige - CANADA, Forest Station, C.W.
In the Rural of April 12, 1862, we gave an article on Agricultural Colleges, stating the location and condition of the most prominent ones. Among those in operation are the Michigan Ag. College, located at Lansing, the capital of the State; the Farmer's College, at Farm School, Center Co., Pa.; and the Maryland Ag. College, located ten miles from Washington, D.C. [[/clipping]]

Describe my new Coleopt. & address Leconte ^ [[insertion circled]] swept away in the vortex of the war, [[/insertion circled]]
quis reget arduis promos relabi posse revor montibus et tiberim reverte cum [[underlined]] tu [[/underlined]] colptos undigne nobilis Libros Latreille; Fabriciam et domini Mutare loricis Iberis, Pollicitas meliora, tendis?
Tibeium Reserte, 
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N.B. on labels (Coleoptera) *[ink] denotes "not in Melsh. Cat."; x [pencil]denotes from Ent. Soc. Phil. State or Territory uncertain.
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Oct 29.'62 Found a specimen of Cratonychus incertus Lec. in earth of breeding cage, along with elatendous larvae. The closely allied C. communis occurs in swarms always under [[underlined]] bark [[/underlined]] ^ [[insertion]] of young trees [[/insertion]]. :. 1st feeds on roots 2nd on timber
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Oct 16. '62 Took in woods Amphicerus bicaudatus
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"A species of mite, the red spider of gardeners, Erythraeus telarius" K & S p 113