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[[start page]] 163) [[NOTE: a piece of paper or newsprint is pasted on page with the following words]] A flock of butterflies, four miles long, passed over one of the inland towns of California recently, for the North. [[end printed note]] N.Y. Tribune July 25. 1865 [[line]] July 30. Gathered some more Black-Knot. Less juicy now, but still fleshy, like a very juiceless apple. Surface covered with short, cylindrical, densely-set, blunt prickles, which in places have apparantly fallen off, leaving the [[underline]] Sphaeria morbosa [[/underline]] consisting of naked, round disks. X Cut into 2 or 3 [[insertion]] ^ Bk knot [[/insertion]] galls. Found one whitish larva .07 inch long, partly damaged, about 3 times as long as wide. Curculio? Was on cell with frass. Also, one minute larva, about .02 long, elongate (5 [[insertion]] ^ or 6 [[/insertion]] times as long as wide) & traveled rapidly. Dipterous? Considerable appearance of incipient Cecid. cells, but still solid. External surface now deep black, not brown-black, as before. [[line]] July 31. Found numerous [[underline]] Lytta marginata [[/underline]] feeding on [[underline]] Silphium perfoliatum [[/underline]]. Leaves much eaten. [[line]] On tame grape. [[image]] A bunch of fusiform green galls, each about .6 inch long & .4 in diameter, the basal 2/3 smooth, the term. 1/3 pubescent, growing on stem. Inside fleshy, juicy, subacid with a long central cell .25 long & .06 in diameter. Larva [[strikethrough]] deep [[/strikethrough]] orange, the disk of dorsum paler: segment [[end page]] [[start page]] 164) bearing breastbone hid above; breast bone [[drawing]] Length .11 inch. One specimen. [[line]] [From Silliman May 1865 p. 362-3. by Dr. W.C. Minor] Dr. Wagner's classificaton of generation in Articulata. "I. A non-sexual spontaneous multiplication of the larve-nurse [[(Aninie)?]] with sexual generation of the developed animal. Germ metamorphosed out of the fat or granular substance of the larve-nurse, & the animal has 3 or 4 transformations. - [[underline]] Cestodes [[/underline]] & [[underline]] Trematodes [[/underline]]. "II. Larves with sexual organs. - [[underline]] Aphides [[/underline]]. "III Multiplication only in the perfect sexual animal; [[underline]] a [[/underline]]. in both [[male and female symbols]] but without sexual influence - [[underline]] Daphnidae [[/underline]]. [[underline]] b [[/underline]], in one sex only, without sexual influence - [[underline]] Bees [[/underline]] & some [[underline]] butterflies [[/underline]]. [[underline]] c [[/underline]], in one sex only, under the influence of fructification "Parthenogenesis is a germination of buds in [[underline]] special sexual organs [[/underline]], though without fructification; [[underline]] alternate genesis [[/underline]] is a self-transformation, also unfructified, of tissue into germs or buds, without any special organ for the transformation. No. I belongs to Alternate genesis; II & partly III to Parthenogenesis." It is perhaps not premature to state here, that the writer has found a number of large, oval germs in some minute larves observed lately. [[insertion]] ^ *** [[/insertion]] To judge from the difference in shape of the larve's head, these were not of the same genus. [[line]] Aug 5 Saw a [[underline]] Vespa maculata [[/underline]] (bald-faced hornet) with a muscide or Tachinide about size of a house-fly in its mouth. Aug 6. Saw one actually eating a muscide? or Tachin? [[end page]]