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Acanthus bipunctatus Deg. has 3 - j[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] (not 4 j[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]]) hind tarsi.  This & the wings > tegmina makes a new genus = Acodendroa.
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Recd. from Kansas per Emery & Co a double row of flat oval eggs - [[image - pencil sketch of double row of eggs, 7 in each row]] - 16 in number - on twig of apple tree.  No doubt eggs of [[underlined]] Platyphyllum [[/underlined]] concavum or some allied gryllide.  see Havres [[underlined]] 3[[superscript]] rd [[/superscript]] [[/underlined]] edition p. 157. 159. 160.
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Feb. 18. 1863 Noticed several small ^[[insertion]] elm [[/insertion]] [wild plum] [[strikethrough]] ? [[insertion]] or elm? [[/insertion]] [[/strikethrough]] trees 7 or 8 ft high on the R.I & C. R.R. beyond [[strikethrough]] [[the]] [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] Brooke's [/insertion]] orchard just this side of an open cattle crossing to the left a great many of the limbs & twigs & even the trunk 1 1/2 inch through of which were covered ^sometimes^ chiefly on [[strikethroug]]e[[/strikethrough]] ^the sunny^ side) ^sometimes all around^ with slits, the ^thin outer^ bark gaping open. These slits were about 1/8 inch long, longitudinal, & ^on stripping off the bark were found^ to contain[[strikethroug]]ed[[/strikethrough]] each from 7-10 white, semitransparent, flattish, oval eggs, [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]] 2 1/2 times as long as wide, packed obliquely the outer tips pointing upwards. [[drawing]] and the flatness oblique thus viewed from above [[drawing]]. In a twig .3 inch in diameter & in 1 inch of its length I counted 34 of these slits, & the rest of the twig was the same. Each slit, on stripping off the green bark, was brown, the brown color extending a little on all sides of it, & the green bark itself was similarily discolored. The whole tree was not thus infested, only particular limbs & twigs ^often 2/3 of whole tree.^ The eggs were generally imbedded into the sapwood about half their length, sometimes nearly their whole length.
[June hatched to a green sp. of Eupoasca p. 56]
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On carefully examining my pear-tree (which had last August some few chloronemia on it) I find here & there a twig with precisely similar slits (2 or 3) only the eggs are 3 times as long as wide. Otherwise arranged exactly alike.
Feb 20 Found a few similar slits on pear & apple in Boyer's orchard. Kinney tells me that 8 years ago Dr. Gregg's apple trees were full of such slits, & there was "blight" there. He has long noticed them & the eggs in them, he says. On the apple the eggs seemed not flat, but [[strike: cylindrical]] fusiform, rounded at tips.
Feb 21. Found eggs & slits on a young crab near the ^elm^ [wild-plum trees], about a dozen in a twig 2 inches long & .4 diameter: eggs [[strike "cylindrical"]] fusiform, 3 times as long as wide placed [[drawing showing eggs place horizontally]] (not 1111) & outside tips rather more pointed than inside tips, .07 inch long. When 2 or 3 slits were together, they were confluent into a large round rough scar on larger twigs .4 inch diameter.
Found similar slits & eggs on twigs of a young burr-oak & also on those of shag-bark & white hickory, all in the close vicinity of these plums.
March 16. Took Coreus tristis & Chilocorus stigma under bark, alive.

[[a printed newspaper cutting pasted on bottom of page reads:]]
FROM NEAR VICKSBURG.
Memphis, April 9 (via Cairo, April 4).
The health of the troops is good, but horses are dying by hundreds in consequence of being stung by gnats. [[/cutting]]
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