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[[start page]] 153) June 10. Took [[underline]] G. vastus [[/underline]] in coitu [[male symbol; female symbol]]. The [[male symbol]] embraces the [[underline]] occiputs [/underline]] (not neck) with his appendages, the superior ones behind the occiput the inferior ones before it. [[line]] June 11. On a basally trifid Red (?) Oak at West side of Gomphus rupinsulensis Plateau, strung 30 + 20 (?) spongifica galls. [all gone by revellers on 4th July] [[line]] On a Black (?) oak Sapling, with leaves almost as broad as long & very large, found [[strikethrough]] 6 [[/strikethrough]] 7 spongifica galls. Sapling on Bluff, beyond fork going to Bluff Valley field, left of Road, opposite stump marked with brush. Sapling also marked with Brush & blazed on East side thrice. Galls mostly badly eaten. Bark rough high up. [[image of sketch of leaf with indications of largest and narrowest features ]] See p. 108 & p. 155 for another [[underline]] orgyia [[/underline]] larva [[line]] June 12. Three [[underline]] Orgyia [[/underline]] larvae on hickory. Length [[insertion]] ^ largest [[/insertion]] 1 1/4 inch. The two normal black pencils on jt. 1 & similar [[underline]] two [[/underline]] on 12. [[insertion]] ^ Long [[/insertion]] Black [[insertion]] dorsal [[/insertion]] tufts close docked as usual on 4 - [[strikethrough]] 6 [[/strikethrough]] 7 & on 11, with a few grayish-white hairs intermixed. The short tufts [[strikethrough]] white [[/strikethrough]] on 1 - 3, [[strikethrough]] 7 [[/strikethrough]] 8 - [[strikethrough]] 9 [[/strikethrough]] ^10, & 12 yellowish with many white hairs intermixed. The lateral tufts all round [[insertion]] ^ short above but beneath [[/insertion]] 4 inch long, the hairs of all lengths & whitish. All the hairs throughout (including pencils & docked tufts) bipectinate like a bird's plumage under the lens. Skin Dorsally black freckled with whitish, laterally whitish. [[end page]] [[start page]] 154) Head [[insertion]] ^ unipunctate [[/insertion]] black. Body beneath [[strikethrough]] lead color [[/strikethrough]] pale greenish black. Prolegs yellowish, with a [[insertion]] ^ medial [[/insertion]] external black spot. Legs blackish [one spun up July 5; one came out July 25] [[line]] June 15 [[strikethrough]] Let go under-ground (glass-box cage) larva answering description of Deilephila lineata. [died] [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] June 16. Bred 1 [[symbol for female]] Callimome (of q. spongifica) from pseudotinctoriae galls from "Case's field." [[line]] June 23. Found a living larva, evidently from its larger head & pointed tail chalcididous, in the central cell of [[underline]] q. globulus. [[/underline]] [[underline]] Not [[/underline]] hairy. [[line]] X Q. Sculpta Bass. also has abd. punctate but not hairy. (see p.151x) [[line]] June 26. Examined closely 20 black-knots gathered yesterday. Cut into 3 or 4. No cells or cecid. larvae visible [[insertion]] ^ nor minute borings [[/insertion]]. Noticed on one a vermilion red Thripide larva [[insertion]] ^ .03 or [[/insertion]] .04 long. Two or three had been already (frass &c) bored by Lepid. larva which had gone. Distinct Cecid. cells in some [[underline]] old [[/underline]] black knots. A week ago out of 6 [[insertion]] B [[?]] [[/insertion]] galls gathered had found a lepid. larva in one, which I preserved. These B. [[?]] galls arise from a slit which extends down to the pith are now fleshy (but not juicy) with radiating fibres from axis of twig. [[end page]]
