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May 20.  Bred { 20 - 30 [insertion]] + 43 [[/insertion]] [[underline]] Magdalinus armicollis [[/underline]] from subcortical larvae which had destroyed a young elm for Mr Leas. [[underline]] All [[/underline]] red elytra & black thorax to most of them; a few red thorax.

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May 19. Took [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] 30 Donacia confusa.  All either metallic brown or indigo blue, [[strikethrough]] which last smaller & slenderer. [[/strikethrough]]  [[insertion]] Blue ones [[2 female symbols]] or [[2 male symbols]]? [[/insertion]]

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May 20. In Cedar fungus terminal 1/2 of filaments had now withered up & shed their ferruginous spores. Red ferruginous still.

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When Sesia first comes out from pupa, it has scales over hyaline part thinly arranged, which afterwards fall off.

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X May 31 Gathered off "Jones' fence tree" 5 spong.
galls, 4 badly eaten. Put twigs in water: + 1
not eaten, but off twig in paper. All very young.

Saw on "Pasture-field tree" 1 spong. gall tip of N.E. bough.

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Cuterebra cunicularis came out.

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X June 10. Many spong. galls on "Tree in Case's field"
experimented on last year. One contained spong. [[underline]] pupa. [[underline]]

June 14. A distinct 2nd.(badly eaten) gall high up
on Grave-yard Black Oak experimented on.

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Came out 1 [[female symbol]] [[underline]] Spongifica [[/underline]] from Jones' fence tree, galls

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X June 17.  Came out a second [[female symbol]] [[underline]] Spongifica [[/underline]] from Jones's fence tree galls.

June 26. Lecanium (plum) from Vermont. Eggs hatching out yesterday & [[underline]] pink [[/underline]] now. They were [[underline]] white [[underline]] 3 weeks ago.

June 25 Lecanium vitis - eggs hatching out & [[underline]] all [[/underline]] now pure white.

X June 26. A large Synergus [[insertion]] ^ same as bred last year [[/insertion]] bred from the [[underline]] old [[/underline]] Q. prunus galls kept over with [[insertion]] ^ a [[/insertion]] larva in  [[underline]] central [[/underline]] cell.

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✓ June 29 Found 2 large Q. erinacei (very red) after long search in usual place. Young apparently. 

O July 6. Found among my [[underline]] Q. fragaria [[/underline]] galls (Burr oak) a leaf which had evidently born Q. caducus p. 179. [[Therefore symbol]] that grows on Burr oak. Of Q. fragaria found 6 bored, [[insertion]] ^ one [[/insertion]] with a large hole which must have produced a Synergus bred today (found dead) & 5 with small holes [[insertion]] ^ & empty [[[/insertion]] which must have been bored when galls were gathered by Psinide? 

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Bred 3 [[female symbol]] C. q. clavula Brass.

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X July 8. Found a case attached to oak leaf composed of little pieces of stems (Phryganea fashion). Larva pale chestnut, [[underline]] legless [[/underline]], head + 12 jd., spiracles, 3 last distinctly [[underline]] none[[/underline]].  [[insertion]] ^ short, 2 - 8 bearing tail truncate squarely [[insertion]]. Length .35 inch. Case .70 inch. Preserved in alcohol & case dried. [[underline]] Peraphora[[/underline]] larva, according to Harris, [[underline]] has [[/underline]] legs. Case moored very solidly by silk, & silk inside. Found another afterwards [[insertion]] ^ & bred from it a singular blackish moth, [[pect?]] ant. [[/insertion.]]

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Transcription Notes:
Unsure about both species names and some of the words used to describe both the beetles and fungus May 20. Interesting to note dates in order are May 20, May 19, May 20. Good luck!