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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 chloroform today 1st time.
Aug 13. In bottle of Salices pomum found 4 or 5 Anthonomus scutellatus come out.
Found ^ (q. prunus) several dozen subspherical galls on the ground under a red [[strike: ?]] oak (acorn picked up ^& not [[underlined]] black oak). Diameter 1.15->3 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 fibres indistinctly radiating from centre, ^externally^ 1/4 of diameter peak, 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.

[[underline next]]Parea? b-notata [[end underline]]Say bred from S. brassic. [[underlined]] galls, 1 spec & unless I misremember, another a few days ago. Also another anthonomus? [[underlined]] besides Lessellatus Walsh.
Chrysopa enfilatris Brown (No 26) bred from Brassic [[underlined]] galls. Aug 6. Noticed Chrys. larvae there. Also the black Tiphia (common) but galls had been renewed a day or two before, as by accident.
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Mixed leaf of cottonwood
--Coal Valley Aug. 8-9 
[[large shadow print of leaf that is on previous page fills the right side of page]]
Aug 14 - Found 2 newbored nubilipennes galls - opened one; it contained a larva apparently cynipidous. Larva of Callimome is hairy. This was not. Other one placed in quinine bottle.
Bred 1 Loxotaenia rosaceana from [[underline next]] S. strobil. [[end underline]] galls.

Aug 17 Found on [[underline next]] S. aenigma [[end underline]] a coleopterous? larva 1/2 inch long, head large, 6 legs & a very long proleg & two anal thorns [[image]] (profile). Color gray with dorsal ^pale^ fuscous [[strike: blackish]] vitta. Placed in bottle (quinine) [failed]
Aug 18. Microlep. from willow galls stopped 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. Peculiarly 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?
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