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115) Aug 12. Took today at Chippiannock 13 Catocala on trunks of trees. Yesterday took 5 & could have taken more. Tried choloroform today 1st time. Aug. 13. In bottle of [[underlined]] salices pomum [[/underlined]] found 4 or 5 Anthonomus scutellatus come out. - Found ^ [ [[underlined]] q. prunus [[/underlined]] ] several dozen subspherical galls on the ground under a red [[strike through "?"]] rough]] oak (acorn picked up) ^& not [[underlined]] black oak. Diameter 1.15-.73 inch, smooth surface, occasionally with a few subobsolete knobs or teeth. Color [[strike: purple or dark blood red]] crimson with numerous round or oval spots occupying 1/2 surface & about .05 - .10 inch ^in diameter^ of a ^ very^ pale yellowish brown, the spots often ^quite^ preponderant so as to show only a net-work of crimson. Inside ^solid juicy &^ fleshy, with fibre indistinctly radiating from centre, ^externally^ 1/4 of diameter pink, gradually shading into yellowish ^central 3/4 of diameter.^ Central cell, with a larva in it .2 inch long when straightened, whitish, lead colored vitta above & slightly below. Paria? b-notata Say [[underlined]] bred from S. brassic. galls, 1 spec & unless I misremember, another a few days ago Also another Anthonumus? [[underlined]] besides Lessellatus Walsh. Chrysopa infilatris Brown (No 26) bred from a Brassic [[underlined]] galls Aug 6. Noticed Chrys. larva there. Also the black Tiphia (common) but galls had been renewed a day or two before - by accident. [[end page]] [[Start page]] [[ a large leaf specimen covers top half of page and obscures field notes. Leaf Labelled: Pinned 6/w pp. 115-116 (pinned to p. 116)]] [[Second half of page]] Aug 17. Found on S. aenigma a Coleopterous? larva 1/2 inch long, head large, 6 legs & a very long proleg & two anal thorns [[image of thorns]] (profile). Color gray with dorsal pale fuscous [[strike: blackish]] vitta. Placed in bottle (quinine)[[?]] Aug 18. Microlep. from willow galls stopped [failed] coming out today. But few yesterday. From beginning to middle of August took over [[strike: 30 or]] 35 Catocala on trunks of trees in Chippiannock Cemetery. Pecularily thick on hill opposite the slough south of the East gate of Widow Brazlen Lane. Took 13 one afternoon & 13 the next. Aug 19. A bright orange larva .12 inch long came out of S. strobiloides [[underlined]] galls. = the winter larva in brown cocoon? [[end page]]