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169) Aug 22. Found two [[underline]] S. Coryloides [[/underline]] on the S. discolor in Chippiannock. Gathered one for Armistead, left the other. [[insertion]] [Heart eaten out next spring] [[/insertion]] Noticed Tetyra fimbriata sucking the honey of a flower.
Noticed the Orchelimum of willow apparently chewing up a muscide? about .15 long. 

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X Aug. 23. [[underline]] Q podagrae [[/underline]] galls. Noticed two or 3 bored out of many in the field. Cut into bored one & found a black pupa, apparently cynipidous. Other (unbored) contained only larvae. 

Gathered very many [[underline]] q. erinacei [[/underline]] galls. One was [[underline]] bored, [[/underline]] & others apparently so. Of [[strikethrough]] 52 [[/strikethrough]] 58 galls [[strikethrough]] 26 [[/strikethrough]] 31 top of leaf, [[strikethrough]] 26 [[/strikethrough]] 27 below, one double gall contained 2 whitish larvae  (Curculionide, black, snapping mandibles) & 1 inch long; [[insertion]] ^ & disk of body blackish [[/insertion]] another much bored a [[underline]] very [[/underline]] elongate lipid. larva, & another with frass outside had suck a larva outside.

Of 22 galls opened, one was 6 - 8 celled, 1 4-celled, 5 3-celled, 8 2-celled & 7 1-celled.  Of the whole number of cells, [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] 11 contd. what were apparently cynipidous larvae, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] three of them with a blackish oval body (egg [[insertion]] ^ case [[/insertion]] of an Ophion?) attached to them by a [[insertion]] ^ slender [[/insertion]] peduncle 1/2 as long as itself, 11 contained what were apparently Curculionidous larvae judging from black-tipped snapping mandibles, 5 contained chalcid.  pupa, one a chalcid. imago & one what [[insertion]] ^ was [[/insertion]] evidently from ant. 

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a cynipidous [[strikethrough]] larv [[/strikethrough]] pupa, the [[remaining?]] 17 being empty. One of the curcul. larvae had the [[strikethrough]] sucked [[/strikethrough]] empty integument of the victim cynip. attached to it, & one was distinct from the others with dorsal caruncles. Curcul. perhaps = [[strikethrough]] chalcid [[/strikethrough]] cynip.? Their cells no frass.

Found no galls without prickles, but longer in some than others. Wear off in winter?

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Aug 25 Gall Salicis pisum on S. discolor. An irregularly spherical, [[insertion]] ^ hollow, [[/insertion]] pale yellowish green gall always growing on the under side of the leaf & attached by only a very small portion of its surface .18 - .28 inch in diameter & a few which were probably immature only .08 in diameter.  [[insertion]] ^ Almost invariably there is but one ball to one leaf, but on [[strikethrough]] 3 or 4 [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ 4 [[/insertion]] leaves there were [[strikethrough]] 2 [[/strikethrough]] 3 [[insertion]] & in 2 leaves 3 [[/insertion]] of them, & occasionally two are confluent. [[/insertion]] The surface of the gall is [[strikethrough]] glabrous [[/strikethrough]] without pubescence, in some smooth & even, in others a little shriveled, [[insertion]] ^ generally [[/insertion]] studded in the medium-sized ones with 4 - 12 small [[insertion]] robustly conical [[strikethrough]] pointed [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] nipples, which in the large[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ ones [[/insertion]] have burst [[strikethrough]] at tip [[/strikethrough]] into a scabrous brown scar. Only in 3 out of 62 galls was there any rosy cheek as in S. pomum. The point of attachment is marked on the upper side of the leaf by a brown [[insertion]] ^ sub [[/insertion]] hemispherical depression, about .04 in diameter. Described from 62 galls. Wall of gall

[[underline]] Larva. [[/underline]] [[insertion]] ^[3,0,[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 6,0,1?] 3,0,6,0,0 -anal [[/insertion]] [20] [[insertion]] ^ 18 [[/insertion]] footed, whitish-hyaline .17 [[insertion]] ^ - .23 [[/insertion]] long, 6 times as long as wide, head [[insertion]] ^ slightly [[insertion]] tinged with dusky, mouth dusky, eyes circular & black.  Holds its body behind 6 legs in the air (Westw II .104 x) Anal segment - 2 others divided by an apparent medial suture. Could discern no anal prolegs.

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