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51) [[whole section crossed out..here is text]](cecidomyia)on fuzz galls; 1st caused by a Tenthredo, 2nd by a Lepedopt. Probably in many cases where cecidomyia (apparently identical) are formed in different galls may be explained on this hypothesis: Loew remarks on the difficulty of distinguishing them ^(p.187)^ Doubt if any cecidomyia makes a gall. C. Destructor does not. [[end of crossed out section]]

Found a parasitic ^larva^ on the corn-stalk Noctuide sent me by Emery.  Did I breed it?  cecidomyide?  See O.S. apud Loew p.179
May 27.  Galls on Amorpha fruticosa. Those with larger holes [[diagram of hole size]] contained Lep. pupa; those with small hoes or none Ichneum pupa in cocoon.  Sometimes those with no holes contd. dead lep. larva In none could I find traces of Lasioptera & its cells.
May 28. Crab [Tettigonia] [[margin above "merulvacidae"?]] when first hatched .06 inch long.  Several out today & also Mymar beneficus
June 1st.  The Eurytomid & the Pteromalid bred from galls of Lasioptera solidaginis O.S. on Vernonia fasciculata, I find indiscriminantly on similar galls breeding the Lasioptera, on Solidago.  Pteromalide different?
June 2nd  A large crippled Catocala came out from dirt cage. Destroyed.  Another a day or 2 later. [Edwards pupa]
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June 3. Galls of caryaecaulis no slit; caryaeglobuli round above the leaf, flat beneath & with a slit there which eventually gapes open. On Island [[strikethrough]]many[[/strikethrough]] no caryaecaulis but many caryaeglobuli. On bluff both in company.
June 4. opened several galls obtained May 24 & 25, & found 1 [[symbol for male]] & 2 [[symbol for female]] {coccineae spongifica} full winged & some in larva & pupa: [[symbol for female]] has 13 jt. ant. last joint long and with a fault [[diagram]] [[symbol for male]] 15 jt. ant. 
If, as I believe, cynips q. coccineae (=spongifica)(the difference being only the relative thickness of shell of gall [[symbol?]] both kinds occurring indiscriminantly this spring in the same lot) is the spring brood of c.q.aciculata (which is ajaxuous & [[symbol for female]] only like spring & summer broods of aphidae), there is no material difference in the structure of antennae, both kinds being 13-jd. with the last jt.conuate, making in all the typical 14-joints. But there [[underscore]] is [[/underscore]] a most wonderful difference in the sculpture, that of spongifica being much coarser on thorax & according to O.S. p. 246 in shape of abdomen.
Aciculata [[underscore]] must [[/underscore]] be conflueus Harr. because the others (spongifera & coccineae) are not from autumnal but vernal [[strikethrough]] joints [[/strikethrough]] galls. But, on my theory, they are all identical. My numerous q. inanis galls were on [white][[marginal note above "red"]] oaks.  Diameter 3.4 - 1 1/8 inch. Probably c. quercus inanis is the spring brood of c.q.centricola O.S. p. 58 Trans.Ent. Soc. He distinguishes them by the size of the galls chiefly.