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[[start page]] 159) contained July 19. chalcide pupae, with a black [[image]] probably exuviae of larva. Found in [[^ all]] [two [[^ + 3]] ] galls which contained pupae the exuviae of the larva, milk-white, but distinctly showing segments of larva. Preserved. In [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] [[^ two]] found hairy, orange larva, probably [[underline]] Callimome [[/underline]]. In one cell (where many were confluent together) found [[underline]] two [[/underline]] pupae [[underline]] diplosis [[/undlerline]] & two exuviae. Larval exuviae easily seen because gall is [[underline]] green. [[/underline]] [[line]] July 20. Larva of [[underline]] Saperda cretata [[/underline]] bores apple trees. (Henry Shimer MS.) [[line]] July 21. Found in a bk knot much eaten by Lepid.? & coated inside with gummy matter a larva .03 inch long, head-end pointed & groping about with this end like a Syrphus larva. [[^ Yellowish]] white[[strikethrough]] ish [[/strikethrough]], a [[^ very distinct]] black speck very like a breast-bone. Replaced it in gall. - Same time, found on my blotting paper, on which I had emptied the bk knots, a nemocerous imago, [[^ dead but recent]] probably not a gall-maker. Cannot be referred to Anaretina or Cecidomyina. [[image - pen drawing]] Near [[underline]] Sciara? [[/underline]] Preserved it. [Named by O.S. as Ceratopogon = a very different genus] [[line]] July 22. Examined a fresh lot of Bk Kt gathered yesterday. One gall about .5 long & .2 wide contained [[underline]] positively [[/underlined]] no larvae, & was still quite green & fleshy. Found another [[underline]] legless [[/underline]] [Lepid?] larva. x [[vertical line]] Found a 3rd species of lep. larvae, [[underline]] with [[^ normal]] legs [[/underline]] [[^ & prolegs]], .18 long, 6 times as long as wide. Head polished, black. Body pale yellowish brown with a few short dusky hairs, [[end page]] [[start page]] 160) a polished brown [[image - pen drawing of half-circle]] shield on jt. 1 & another [[image - pen drawing of half-circle]]on anal jt. spins a thread & wriggles. [Bred it [[^ isolated]]; no other [[^ Lep. larva]] in gall] No recent black knots yet bored by the minute holes supposed to be [[underline]] cecid. [[/underline]]: all cut into still quite green & fleshy & may be distinguished externally from old ones by browner & more opaque surface. The [[underline]] sphaeria morbosa [[/underline]] just beginning to appear on some of them. In [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] the jar, with sand containing earliest gathered bk. Kt found a [[^ living]] [[underline]] Conotrachelus nenuphar. [[/underline]] The legless (Lepid.?) larva probably belongs here. Hence the Black Knot "curculio" cannot be a 2nd brood of the Plum insect, which are sd. to "leave the fruit & enter the ground early in July" ([[underline]] Fitch [[/underline]] p. 20) [[line]] [[strikethrough]] The "butternut" [[underline]] con. nenuphar [[/underline]] of larger size (Fitch p.24) are probably a Phytophagic species. Say states ([[fide?]] Bartram) that it "destroys the European walnut in this country." [[underline]] No intermediate size[[/underline]] between plain size & walnut size. [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] Gall [[underline]] Prunus tubicola [[/underline]] [[^ see. p. 155)]] Some now .25 long, 4-5 times as long as wide. First one opened contained a larva .05 inch long, 5 times as long as wide, head pointed & elongate, & works round with it like a [[underline]] syrphus[[/underline]] larva (& the larva in Bk. Knot.) Whitish with an abbreviated dorsal [[^ (?)]] fuscous vitta; both extremities of of body [[^ especially]] yellow [[&^ above]]. A series of [ventral?] caruncles opposite side to [dorsal?] fuscous vitta. Of 20 galls opened, two contained a larva size of above, one a larva only .025 long, & 17 nothing at all. A few opened or grawed into at tip, & one or two gnawed into (?) laterally. [[end page]]
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Shimer was physician and entomologist.
