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49) May 18. observed 2 [[symbol for female]] [[Mymar beneficus?]] flying repeatedly into slits but not ovipositing. One once fixed itself both upright on its hind legs, balancing itself behind by its wings as a Kangaroo by its tail, in the manner stated by Mr Scudder to be adopted by the Platygaster that oviposits in the canker-worm eggs, but did not oviposit nor introduce its abd.-tip.

The abd. [[symbol for female]] is clearly peduncled, peduncle as long as width of abd. & apparently [[image]] cecidomyious[[referring to Cecidomyiidae?]] gall [[strikethrough]] lymphs [[/strikethrough]] quercus-pilula Walsh [[strikethrough]] filch [[/strikethrough]] [[symbol for male female]] cynipide today.  The larva apparently often goes into the ground to pupize, for I found at bottle of jar (no sand) 10 or 12 ^(cedidomyiade)^ (dead and dry). Other galls (1) had living, or at all events succulent, larvae in them as this is the inguiline [[diagram]], probably the true tenant belonged to the [[?]] and is unknown. [[symbol for male]] ant. 15 [[symbol]], [[symbol for female]]12 jt. [[casting??]]
May 17. Dug out of galls of q. ficus many daed wingless [[symbol for female]] cynips (description [[apud?]] Filch q. ficus. [[strikethrough]] A doubtful inquiline (from p.4 bottom) may also be referred here with probability[[/strikethrough]][Mistake of jars.]
May 19. Pot. cupidus Say subimago. Enterus. seta = 2/3 others.
May 21. Cynips pseudo-popegrae.  From admist a swarm of pale normal ones, took {many 2} dark [[symbol for female]] {in bright light a trifle paler & reddish (no tale about them) in the normal pale spots. [[symbol]] mendax in the ant. being shorter.  Are they a var. of pseudopdagrae, or a 4th species? [[underline]]The galls were isolated. [[/underline]]
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In [[symbol for female]] Gomphus fraternus with inflated abdomen, there is a little tail attached to tip of so-called 2nd ventral, 1/3 as long as the segment itself.
May 24. Found dozens of oak-apples (conflueatus Filch) at "Lib-4-maculata corner".  Broke ends of twigs. One (cut open) contained pupa[[strikethrough]]coccinea spongifica[[/strikethrough] Galls now contain full grown larvae some of them.  Tips of almost all had now lost their nipple.^"mistake"^ [varieties have the terminal nipple absent, but have small nipples scattered irregularly on surface]
one was convered with 12 or 18 dark-pointed nipples, & dark patches. [[insert - [some of these galls (same lot) thin shell, some thick] ]]Probably where the Synophous had ovipositor - Noticed dark [[mines?]] in the woolly matter of 2 galls. [made by a Lepidopterous larva: [[caupit?]]at work in gall of q. inanis, green 16 footed, head brown, one [[?]] in jar June 5th.
May 25 Gathered many oak-apples, mostly with nipples, & found in several [[symbol for female]] pupae of [[strikethrough]]aciculata [[/strikethrough]{coccinae spongifica (Common opposite see p. 52)
May 26 From crab slits came out homopt larvae undistinguishable from those of elm, & also the Mymar beneficus W. [35] -
Lasioptera solidaginis O.S. Found 5 dead with galls. also a Torymid (dead) in one of cells (gummed on perserved gall) =(?)one, perfect, formed loose with galls.  Bred several (4 preserved) [[underscore]] the same [[/underscore]] species from galls of Vernonia fasciculata (lepidopterous larvae in them). Therefore, although no traces of lepid. larvae in Sol. galls, the parasitic Las. must have starved them out.  So willow galls insect on  [[diagram]] = insect
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