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Sep. 27 Cut an apterous Cynips 
[[image]] pezomachoides) out
of Q. erinacei.

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Oct. 2 Found in [[^ 2]] S. gemma [[^ along with much [[?]] ]] 2 tenthred. 20-footed larva .12 [[^ - .19 inch]] long, greenish white, head tinged with dusky & the usual fuscous eye-spots - mouth dusky. Also [[^ in another]] a robust chalcid? larva .15 long, tinged with dusky & with a few hairs on fore-part of body. Inside of gall a green, fleshy matter. A few galls already bored.

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X Oct. 3 Found in one "pseudotinctoria" from Case's field " a cynip. larva fresh and probably living.

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O Oct. 11 opened all q. prunus galls of last year. Found 1 larva (large, cynip.) living, moving its mandibles [[9 tally marks]] [[^ [+ 2] ditto 
[[^ 2 of them]] apparently dead but fresh [[11 tally marks]] imagos living of C. q. prunus[[?]] [[2 tally marks]] small cynip. larva; 5 or 6 bunches of chalcid? larvae preserved in closed galls, [[^ gummed together]], the 2 small cynip. larvae + 12 large ditto.

[[^ April 12, 1867 came out 1 C. q. prunus from them]]

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[[image]] No [[underline]] pupae [[underline]] found in galls.

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Oct 11. Of 61 q. inanis galls opened [[^ today]] exclusive of those which had central cell bored, 32 contained balls of chalcid? larvae, 26 empty or irrecognizable matter, 2 dead & dry [[underline]] c. q. inanis [[underline]] imago broken up, & 1 a cynipidous? larva, [[^ [[underline]] alive [[underline]] ] & moving.

4 [[pseudo?]] galls intermixed each contained

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a cynip ? larva, one of them very lively. There were also a few [[pseudo?]] galls  empty. 

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Oct 14.
[[underline]] Salicis [[pisum?]][[underline]] About 1/4 or 1/5 now have a slightly rosy cheek. Found 4 Sal. [[?]] on S. discolor  in company with S. [[?]], all empty & bored.

[[check mark]] Found several [[underline]] Sal. verruca [[underline]]  on S. discolor. Larva in [[strikethrough]] one [[strikethrough]] [[^ three (one of 3 bored) ]]  [[strikethrough]] sanguineous [[strikethrough]] [[^ orange]] with [[strikethrough]] yellow [[strikethrough]] [[^ whitish]] markings as usual, (breastbone [[^ black]) [[image]], .08 long,  2 1/2 - 3 times as long as [[strikethrough]] usual [[ [[^ wide], flattened, head large. 

On leaves on S. cordata found numerous galls analogous to S. semen. No larva in them, except perhaps in one. 

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Oct 15. Q. caducus [[^ (near deciduous Bassett
[[^what oak? Burr. [[strikethrough]] or white [[strikethrough]] ( [[?]] must be one or other) see p. 190]] monothalmous dull [[^opaque]] sanguineous subscabrous, the fleshy galls growing from the midrib of the leaf on the under side, [[^ & attached loosely by a [[?]] [[?]],
diameter [[^ of each]] .06 - .20 inch, sometimes compressing each other a little as in q. ficus. Larva mostly invisible, but in one quite large & wall of gall only about 1/5 or 1/6 of diameter.  [[image]] at base often.

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[[check mark]] Found one q. erinacei [[^Q. hystrix]] on burr oak, & 2 others closely resembling it [[^ but more woolly reserved. First had been gnawed by lep.? & perhaps wool gnawed off.

[[line]]  The tree (supposed red oak) on which I found [[?]] Q. punctuata gall is a black oak, from leaves & acorns.

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