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[[start page]] 131) Placed in cage No. [[strikethrough]] 6 [[strikethrough]] 5 (bass-leaves) 3 antiphola larvae off oak, 1/2 grown, all very lively, two tolerably perfect, 1 considerably rubbed. The 2 first white, or nearly so, with black pencils & [[strikethrough]] red [[strikethrough]] rufous heads, the last dirty whitish or gray, black pencils, & blackish head. [[line]] Found in [[underline]] c. q. spogifica [[underline]] galls 4 larvae [[^.2 - .3 inch long]] (lepidopt.) legs normal. Color opaque fuscous, head rufous fuscescent segments with four anterior transversely arranged black dot (bearing a hair?) & two posterior ones (ditto?) [[image of dot arrangement]] [[line]] Sep.6 In cage No.5 (bass) the rubbed Antiphola was off the leaves. Other two not visible. In cage No.4 (sycamore) 3 good & perfect Antiphola were visible (last night's 3?) one off the leaves & two one. No gnawings where the 2 on the leaves were sitting. In cage No.3 (oak) 1 [[strikethrough]] anitphola [[strikethrough]] [[^ tessellate]] was dead & shrivelled up . Other 2 not visible. In cage No.2 (willow) a larva (that like acronycta oblinita?) had spun a cocoon on the roof of the cage, cutting away, a large piece of the millinet to make it. Mended with paper. [[line]] Placed in cage No.1 (oak) 4 antiphola larvae, off bass. 1 very small [[image of size]] [[^ lively but]] seedy; 2 1/2 grown & 1 3/4 grown all in good order. All black heads, including the small. one. [[end page]] [[start page]] 132) Placed in No.5 (bass) 3 more antiphola larvae 1 nearly 3/4 grown & 1 1/2 grown, both in good order, & 1 1/2 grown livley but nearly naked. All black heads. [N.B. Noticed many [[underline]] young [[underline]] Antiphola, 1/2 grown & under, with rufous heads.] [[line]] Sep.9 In [[underline]] S. pomum [[underline]] jar noticed 3 nematus larvae .35 - .40 inch long, pale cinereous [[^ with pale dusky markings]] with legs active, crawling about. Eyes dusky as usual [[line]] (A) spun up in cage No. 1 (oak) a large 2 inch long hairy [[Arctian?]]?, white, with spreading long sparse white hairs [[^ proceeding from warts]]. head whitish with a transvers black [[^ fuscia]] [[image]] above [[^ & below]]. [[strikethrough]] From memory. [[strikethrough]] Also a 2nd spec. n e Hair of body 1/2 as long as body. [Another sp. got today] [May 23 cocoon empty mysteriously] Found Doryphora 10-lineata today on Danforth's sidewalk. [[line]] One larva (the first obtained) of Dryocampa bicolor? dead; placed in alcohol in decagonal vial. In [[underline]] Stigma [[underline]] larva the white granules on each segments are much more sparse & there is always one tranverse row of them [[strikethrough]] of [[strikethrough]] on each segment. In [[underline]] bicolor [[underline]] they are irregularly arranged, with no vestiges of any tranverse row. [[line]] Sep.12 Found Aphis bella W. in company with numerous larvae on black oak. [[end page]]
