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as long as wide [[insertion]] ^ same helicida [[/insertion]] & resembling grains of rice. Length about .02 inch. [Spiders eggs?] Coccidae.

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Aug 31. Bred [[insertion]] ^ 1 [[insertion]] Conotrachelus Nenuphar from Black Knot.  Bred another early in season. Date recorded. [July 22]

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Found 3 or 4 large [[underline]] Orgyia leucostigma [[/underline]]  larvae on sycamore. This feeds on nearly same trees as Hal.  tessellaris + sycamore: [[symbol for therefore]] nothing peculiar in that tree universally inimical to arctian larva.

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X Sep. 2 larva [[insertion]] ^ (2 specimens) [[/insertion]] in q. ficus now .07 long, white, with large, scaly head, & tips of jaws fuscous  [[insertion]] ^ & snap together [[/insertion]] larva in q. [[underline]] erinacei [[/underline]] [[underline]]  curcul. [[/underline]] is really { [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] cynipidous? [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] chalcididous? [[/insertion/]] ?? One [[insertion]] ^ +1 [[/insertion]] larva showed no mandibles. [[insertion]] ^ Cynipidous? [[/insertion]] All from central cell. One chalcid.? larva with pointed tail showed subfuscous mandibles, & 3 others with disk of body blackish towards tail [[strikethrough]] the same [[/strikethrough]] very plain fuscous-tipped mandibles, which snapped.  Several bunches of galls gathered yesterday had galls alternately pale yellowish green & bright rosy. Some now brown & partially ripe, some pale yellowish green & some ditto with rosy cheek.

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Found 2 large white larvae 1/4 each long & 3 1/2 times as long as wide embedded each in a cell in the lateral [[sponge?]] of [[underline]  q. globulus. [[/underline]] Head larger & scaly & tips of mandibles fuscous. Ichienniouidous?  on some inquilinous lipid?

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gall [[underline]] q. pilula [[/underline]] [[insertion]] ^ on red oak [[/insertion]] now contained, beside [[underline]] 1 [[/underline]] orange cecid.? larva, [chalcid.] [[insertion]] ^ cynipidous (bred 1866 synergus [[/insertion]] with fuscous-tipped snapping mandibles; One cell had [[underline]] two [[/underline]] in it. Almost every gall was hollow with 2 cells (about) & contained one or more of them chalcid? [[insertion]] Bred April [[?]] of [[C
ero?]] inermis? [[insertion]] larvae. Examined 12 or 14.

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Two crops of the gall-like fungus on red Cedar about Aug 25. The old, dry, last year's ones are free [[underline]] from borings [[/underline]] (except a lep. in two which had bored and perished there in larva state.) [[symbol for therefore]] Not galls: [[symbol for therefore]] Bk Knot (analogous) not a gall, but an epiphytous fungus.

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X From very small and immature galls, apparently of [[underline]] q. globulus [[/underline]], recently found, this must be an [[underline]] [[underline]] autumnal [[/underline]] gall.

Sep. 3 Dryoc. bicolor larva still on leaves [2 had gone under]. Now 2 inches long. Sep. 4th [[insertion]] ^ & 5th & 7th [[/insertion]] Ditto. 8th off [[?]].

[[strikethrough]] [If it had so happened that larve were easily preserved in Cabruets and imagos not so, then I have no doubt that the closet naturalists would neglect and undervalue [[strikethrough]] imaginal [[/strikethrough]] the characters of the imago just as [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] many of them now do those of the larva. Genera and species wd. then be characterized almost exclusively [[strikethrough]] [[?]] by the [[/strikethrough]] from the consideration of the larva, just as they are now characterized almost exclusively from the consideration of the imago; and [[insertion]] closet [[/insertion]] Entomologists wd. be no more disconcerted at finding two distinct imagos undistinguishable than they now are at finding 2 distinct larva undis-

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