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[[underline]] Gall Carya semen [[/underline]] p. 191. (Carya glabra bottom of graveyard hill.) Besides the sluggish yellow, Mother-coccus & the eggs, there is a [[underline]] very [[/underline]] active [[insertion]] ^ hyaline [[/insertion]] hexapod larva in some of these galls. Inquilinous? No joints to body? Allied to Acarus? [[insertion]] ^ no: = young coccus [[/insertion]] Found in one a largish hairy Chalcid. larva, with snapping jaws & pointed tail. Found in one 8 or 9 young coccus, [[insertion]] ^ elongated [[/insertion]] yellowish & very active.  Mother coccus in another roundish, yellow & dull.  Evidently a coccus.  In another 8 or 9 young coccus & mother.  Mother deeper yellow.

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[[underline]] Gall Carya pilula [[/underline]] on C. glabra. abundant but local. A globular, pale green gall on general surface of leaflet, 1 - 9 on a leaflet, .10 - .20 inch in diameter, bisected by plane of leaflet, upper face a little flattened, lower with a small nipple both surfaces with a reticulate appearance from very darker and very slightly deepened. Mostly now turned blackish & lower nipple burst widely open [[insertion]] ^ in a decussate slit [[/insertion]] so as to show 4 angulated blackish lobes tipped with white. Those not burst contained now a chalcid. larva, hairy & with black jaws & wriggles much. (20 galls thus). Must be [[underline]] cecid. [[/underline]] gall, & larva gone underground. [[insertion]] ^ only on tree E of road to grave yard & S. of large cottonwood there [[insertion]] 

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Mr. A. Merrell, Commerceal Cottage, [[?]] knows of a breed of tailless cats in N.H. (Young [[Gaw?]])

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[[underline]] July 25  Gall Carya pabella [[/underline]] [[insertion] ^ sticky Aug 29 all.[[/insertion]] Cecid? on C. alba. A smooth, greenish white irregularly hemispherical [[insertion]] ^ fleshy [[/insertion]] gall, .15 or less in diameter, the O of hemisphere attached by a pouch to lower surface of leaf, the other surface excavated with a [[insertion]] ^ large [[/insertion]] conical nipple in the middle tipped with brown, rising often much above the hemisphere; edges of which are crinkled & [[strikethrough]] form an [[/strikethrough]] acutely margined [[insertion]] ^ & form a [[/insertion]] circle surrounding the central nipple.  Inside a smooth cell, but no larva yet visible.  Sparse, 1 or 2 on a leaf, among numerous holotricha? galls.

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[Gall] [[underline]] (aceris localus [[/underline]] [[insertion]] ^ = fungus. [[/underline]] Coccidan? [[insertion]] No. = Epiphytous fungus [[/insertion]] Found one small gall smooth inside, no meally processes, & no larva. In one gall very many elongate, sluggish, pink lice like those in Crataegi vermiculus. Of 20 galls opened, 11 contained larvae. 
Found a  singular Coccidan?? at large on maples leaves. Runs fast.  Pale rufous. Disk of back largely brown. 3 lateral equidistant [[insertion]] ^ large [[/insertion]] white spots & another over head. [[insertion]] ^ an irregular white ventral vitta [[/insertion]] Ant. Moderate.  Mouth very strange.
Inquilinous on A. loculus? [Tarsi connate with [[?ae]] & 3-jtd. joints connate?]

Found 1 small caryaecaulis on large isolated C. glabra. & several on another, some on [[insertion]] ^ young [[/insertion]] [[underline]] leaves [[/underline]], only  partially developed at tip of young shoot. Slit decussate.

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[[underline]] Sal brassic. [[/underline]] [[insertion]] ^ No. 1 [[/insertion]] burrowing in heart.  Lep. larva .10 long grass-green, 16 footed, head black emarg. behind [[image]], an obsemicircular pale brown plate on jt. 2. A few long hairs on anal end. [Not preserved.] 

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No. 2 A larger one (killed) .25 long, differs in head being square behind, plate on jt. 1 black & joining head & in legs being black.  Hairs same in front.

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