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May 20. Tramea n. sp. [[symbol for male]] Anus is [[underline]]beneath [[/underline]] inferior appendage.

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May 21 Found very numerous{[[^ acaridous]] [[image]] galls like Tubicolus s. on leaves of wild plum; also terminal vestiges of galls like S. Brassicoides. 
X The oak on the flats [[^ east of slaughterhouse]] had no spongifica galls. That in Case's field was [[underline]] full [[/underline]] of them - 50 or 60 at least. Galls now some small, some 1/2 - 3/4 inch in diameter. [No signs yet of any new black knot.]

The black oak on the Flats north of Jones' House had 4 galls only: those south of it all the way along had a few galls (spongifica) each. The one most to the south had a new kind of gall, white, woolly [[^ outside]], fleshy inside & polythalamous, 1 - 1 1/2 inch in diameter, growing round the base of the catkins [[^ [[strikethrough]] q. flosculus [[/strikethrough]] [[^ = q. operator]]

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May 26. Two (dead) Cec. (1 [[symbol for male]] 1 [[symbol for female]]) found in s. gemmae vial are probably inquilines, [[symbol for because]] 1st eurytomides therefrom, 2nd pedicles of [[symbol for male]] ant. = globular part of jt.

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May 26. Orchelimum larva bred S. stobiliscus

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May 28. Microrhopala laetula [[?]] occurred very abundantly at 
Chippiannock on Silphium perfoliatum. Very many in coitu. No colorational [[image]] in sexes.

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May 29. Found Microrhopala { [[^ n. sp. [[?]] ]] S. Capularis in coitu: [[symbol for therefore]]  my form with orange pectis [[^ = Scapularis [[?]] [[?]] ]] is a species [= lateralis Say [[^ =]]  scapularis [[?]]

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May 30. 
X Anus in Gomphus [[underline]] below [[/underline]] inferior appendages but [[underline]] above [[/underline]] the two anal appendages.

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Took a [[symbol for male]] [[underline]] Leptura bivittula [[/underline]] Say in coitu with a [[symbol for female]] var.[[?]] elytra entirely black & thorax entirely red. Thorax [[symbol for male]] entirely black. Preserved.

June 2. Saw Deilephila lineata flying freely 2 P.M. on [[^ wild ]] iris flowers [noticed by Edwards P.E.S.P.]

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X June 4. Captured [[symbol for female]] Syaergus rhoditiformis on a green q. podagrae gall at large. Many of these new galls bored; [[^ the]] others not. The borings lead to empty [[underline]] brown [[/underline]] cells, [[underline[  promiscuously [[/underline]] inter-mixed with which are greenish white semipellucid [[underline]] solid [[/underline]] cells [[^ [[underline]] not [[/underline]] projecting at all from surface as in [[underline]] q. cornigera [[/underline]] O.S. [[?]] vide]] containing no larva, & about size of grain of rice, axis perpendicular to surface of gall. [Bassett right about his species being double-brooded.] These last mostly adhere to bark on pulling it off & are fleshy but moderately solid & hard.  Out of about 30 galls, nearly 1/2 are thus partially bored. 

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X Gathered lot of [q. flosculus] [[^ = q. operator]] galls (Black oak, see p.149) Now tinged externally with reddish brown, smooth & with no [[underline]] knubs [[/underline]] like seminators. Cells very hard & woody.  One contained chalcid. larva & one a cynipidous pupa. They adhere

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