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[[start page]] 151) X scarcely to stem, like seminator galls of over 25 spongifica galls opened today, only 2 contained pupa of cynips & those had been eaten into by tortrix larva 3/4 inch long found therein & were thus prematurely ripened. Then 2 came off oak an flats East of road "necrophorus corner". Two Chalcid. larvae found in spong. galls were hairy. [[underline]] Callimome? [[/underline]] or [[/underline]] Decatoma? [[/underline]] Must be [[underline]]Callimome; [[/underline]] [[symbol for because]] hairy larvae found in strobiloides &c galls, which produce no [[underline]] decatoma.[[/underline]] [See p.154 X] [[line[[ X [ C. q. strobilana O.S. (like my C. q. prunus) has whole abd. pubescent (P.E.S.P. II p.691) [[line]] X June 5. on tree in Jonah Case's field, found about 40 pseudotinctoriae, [[insertion]] ^some [[/insertion]] intermixed promiscuously on same bough with spongifica. Only 6 or 7 [[underline]] Spongifica [[/underline]] in all, besides 2 or 3 destroyed by Lep. larvae. [[underline]] Pseudot. [[/underline]] grow from under side of leaf like spongifica &c. When ripe, are detached by the least touch. As I am certain that I found very numerous [[underline]] pseudot. [[/underline]] under the [[/underline]] Red [[/underline]] oak at [[?.]] 4-maculata corner, this species also (like q. prunus) must be common to Red & Black oak. (??) Osten Sacken thought it (M.S.) an undeveloped [[underline]] spongifica. [[/underline]] Is it not his [[underline]] q. centricola? [[/underline]] No! Filaments of [[end page]] [[start page]] 152) that gall with a [[underline]] "silky [[/underline]]gloss" [[symbol]] [[underline]] q. inanis.[[/underline]] This pseudotinctoriae has filaments very stout & [[underline]] cottony. [[/underline]] X June 6. One [[underline]] q. prunus [[/underline]] (opened) still in larva state on black oak close to J. Case's east fence (large tree) strung 36 spongifica galls. Then galls on flats all still in larva west of Road; opened 20. Pseudo-tintoriae gall on Red Oak different rather from that on Black Oak. When [[strikethrough]] young [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^recent, [[/insertion]] green & [[insertion]] ^smooth & [[/insertion]] pellucid (like inanis & nubilipennis) & [[insertion]] ^often [[/insertion]] with brown dots [[image of circle with dots]] [[insertion]] ^as also some q.inanis. [[/insertion]] That on Black Oak when [[strikethrough]] young [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] recent [[/insertion]]opaque & [[insertion]] very [[/insertion]] powdery & no dots. [[strikethrough]] [[?]] & [[/strikethrough]] the radiating fibres of the latter are coarser. [[line]] June 7 & 8. From galls [[/underline]] q. flosculus [[/underline]] (= operator o.s.) came out these days 86 [[symbols for male]] without a single [[symbol for female]], (the [[symbol for male]] has a penis pointed & curved under abdomen [[image]] ) besides at least a dozen more [[symbols for male]] left in bottle. [[line]] June 9. Ditto 85 [[symbols for male]] & only 4 [[symbols for female]] [[line]] June 10. Ditto. Out of 54 counted promiscuously, 52 [[symbols for male]]. [[line]] 0 June 11. Gathered galls off [slaughterhouse oak [[insertion]] [this was oak S. of slaughterhouse, on which I had hung strings of galls spring of 1864. [[strikethrough]] Necrophorous corner See P.149 X [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] - 5 of them, 3 badly eaten by Lep. larvae (found in one noctuide green, white striped larva), & one small & shriveled. The other one good. From one of the eaten ones, imago cynips had [[/underline]] apparently [[/underlie]] issued. [[line]] Today from Case's field spongifica came out one [[symbol for female]] spongifica [[image]] [[end page]]
