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184) March or April [[Cera?]]larva in heartwood of white oak near sapwood, has spiracle mesothoracic
& prothoracic fold closely united with prothoracic
beneath. March 29, 1866

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Apr. 8. 1866. New Cedar fungus now nearly full
grown. Surface with [circle] depressions, often with a
central (aureole or) very flat nipple.

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X Bred 5 [[image of female symbol]] q. podagrae, from galls in warm room through winter

Apr.12 bred 2 [[symbol for female]] -----------(all 7 black abdomen)

-- 15 ---  9 [[symbol for female ]] -----(all 9 ----- 

-- 18 ---  17[[sign for female]]--(all 15 ---- -----)
also 2 [[symbol for female]] rhoditiformis)

Apr 19  8 [[symbol for female]] (+2 rhod. 1 [[symbol for male]] 1 [[symbol for female]])       (all 8 ---- -----

--  20 [[strikethrough]] ?]] [[/strikethrough]] 1 [[symbol for for female]] (1 -- --)

-- 22  2 [[symbol for female]] 44 [[strikethrough]] 39 [[/strikethrough]] in all ----------- both -----)       

-- 23 4 [[symbol for female]]          (all 4 ---)

-- 24 0 (4 rhodit.s)

-- 25 0 ( ---------)

-- 26  0 (5 -------)

---28 1 [[symbol for female]]_______________(abd. black)

X Preserved alive for 4 days 4[[symbol for female]] with red abdomens from [[underline]] new [[/underline]] lot of galls. Abdomen still as  red as ever.

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Chic. Republican April 17? 66.

X Apr. 18 Q. Podagrae galls gathered about April 1st. Bred 34 [[symbol for female]], 12 with abd. decidedly rufous, rufo-piceous

 or rufous base of segments, others partly so. Kept 4 alive in vial. See p. 184X.

April 19 Bred 190 [[symbol for female]], many abd. rufous or subrufous.

- 20 about 100 taken to field (not closely examined but apparently all [[symbol for female]]

+ 114 [[symbol for female]] examined (many with rufous abdomen)

Apr. 22 About 175 - 200 [[symbols for female]] (?) taken to field, but apparently all [[symbol for female]].

April 23   53 [[symbol for female]] (early in the morning) about 1/3 abd. more or less red).

-- 24 35 [[symbol for female]] ------   -------

-- 25 14 [[symbol for female]] ------   34

-- 26  6 [[symbol for female]] ------   190

-- 28  6 [[symbol for female]] ------   114
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                                         35

X Apr 20. Opened 1 pseudotinctoriae gall from Cases' field, that lay on table through winter.  Larva plump & [[underline]] apparently     [[/underline]] alive     (line over top) 26

X April 20. Placed about 50 [[symbol for female]] q. podagrae [[/underline]] on East bough of supposed "q. punctata" Black oak on Bluff. Also about 20 on East bough of another Bl Oak 45 yds south, & west of road. Also on both a few on trunk. [No galls came

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O Apr. 22 In a querc. erinacei (unbored & 3 cells) found 1 large Cynip. pupa, abd. with many joints, [[symbol for therefore]] not Synergis &c? Other 2 cells cynip. larvae.

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Column on right hand side of page with numerals 34, 190, 114, 53, 35, then line 26.