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182) Nov. 10 The [[image/squiggle]]Tomicus? [[^ came out [[?]][[Mag?alinus]] armicollis. Still in larva state under elm bark of Leas's block.

 X Nov 25. Opened about 80 fresh spongifica galls, found one 1 living aciculata & 1 dead one. Also many branches of chalcide? larva, & one large hairy (Callimome?) larva.  

Placed the living [[underline]] acic. [[/underline]] on the S. cenywer [[???]] tree (small)[[^(& isolated)]] of the slough-side group N. of Sand pits. But it fell on grass under tree & got lost.


X Dec 4. Recd. from Bebb specimens of S. [[?]] on S. Negra from G. W. Clinton, Buffalo N. Y.

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X Dec 17. Gathered over 100 [[^-150]] spongifica galls, all but about 20 bored. Of these 20 all but 2 were abortive; in 1 of the 2 found dried & broken remains of an [[underline]] aciculata [[/underline]] imago & in same cell a full grown [[^large]]large hairy chalced. larva, probably the usual [[callimome?]]  In the other found the same larva, solitary.


The S. E. 2 oaks on the NE corner of Slaughter house as fall of these galls as an ordinary apple tree of apples.

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Glover, Entomologist of Agr. Dept. at Washington [[^(p. 561)]] was called on to do hosts of things besides entomologize.  This is like hiring a single cradler to cut 10,000 acres of wheat, & then expecting him [[^in addition]] to cut & fetch in wood, peel & wash the potatoes [[strikethrough]] &c. &c. [[/strikethrough]] & be always on hand ready to wait on the good woman of the house.

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183)

On inherited mutilation & inherited obsolescence
[[^ & on a case of Mimicry in the diurnal sp. of N.A. by Benj. D. Walsh.  

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disippus [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] common, Ursula rather rare Kirkpatrick III. p.329

Artemis very rare, disippus [[^: very]] common [[?tner]] III. pp. 62-4  ursula rare

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"P. from Honduras & Brazil" Polydamas is found all over Tropical America. I have had it from Honduras & Brazil" (Edward ms.) "P. Calverleyi Grote is a suffused Asterias". (Edw. ms) "One of the collectors that came out with me [to VA] last summer reported seeing a big dragon-fly pounce upon Glaucus & carry him away as a hawk does its prey [[strikethrough]] " [[/strikethrough]].  I have heard from another collector of a similar case that he saw." (Edw. m.s.)

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The much greater tendency of the southern birds, or those belonging to the cotton region,  to go northward in the Mississippi Valley than along the Atlantic Slope is explained not only by the ascent there of the isothermal lines, but by the absence of any such obstacle to their journey as is furnished by the Appalachian Range.
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We have [[underline]]Amia,[[/underline]] [[underline]] Lepidosteus,[[/underline]] [[underline]] Micropterus,[[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] (Gryptes) [[/strikethrough]] [[/underline]] [[underline]] (Grystes)[[underline]] & various other forms of fishes throughout the Mississippi Valley as far North as the Great Lakes, while on the Atlantic slope they do not pass the James or lower Potomac except as stragglers. [[underline]]Baird [[underline]] Sill Journ. XI.I. p.87

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