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34) Nucleus when just ready to drop out turns black, except at tip. Larva curves dorsally BG[[image-drawing with Bb notation]]. [[line]] X│ Haws are now perforated by a snout-beetle, but on opening the round punctures, though there were brown cuttings & channels inside, could detect no larva. Cuttings not deep nor very extensive. [[line]] Cut open solitary [[underlined]] Q. ovarium [[/underlined]] gall on Red oak. Contained several S. rhoditiformis? Thrown away. [[line]] Negundo (lepid.) galls are now empty. Thrown away. Were in jar where now ^ [[insertion]] are in [[/insertion]] "Curculio" plums. [[line]] Of [[underlined]] Q. prunus [[underlined]] galls preserved with old larvae (J.I. p.100?) 2 now contained dead & mouldy imago [[underlined]] C. q. prunus [[/underlined]], several [[do.?]] larva & pupa, & one a [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Syn. rhoditiformis? [[/underlined]] Preserved the last, which is perhaps [[underlined]] Syn. n. sp. [[/underlined]] bred for [[underlined]] q. prunus [[/underlined]]. [[line]] Wm. H. Edwards sends me two specimens of [[underlined]] Chrysopa oculata [[/underlined]] Say which he says stink badly. [[line]] [underlined]] Cynips ^ [[insertion]] tumifica O.S. [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] querce caulis [[/strikethrough]]- ^ [[insertion]] [[underlined]] Proc. [[/underlined]] IV. p. 356 [[/insertion]] On. q. [[nilva?]] [[image]] gathered June 15. [[underlined]] Gall [[/underlined]] a simple enlargement of the leaf stalk on the [[underlined]] lower [[/underlined]] side exclusively to .30 in diameter, but extending partly (1/3 of it) on to the midrib. Polythalamous. Bred June 22, 1 [[male symbol]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[male symbol]] antennae robust, 15 jt. 7 - 14 as broad as long, 15 a little longer. Areolet entirely obsolete [[male symbol]] [[female symbol]]. [[male symbol]] Black; [[female symbol]] head bright rufous, thorax except scutel dull rufous, [[female symbol]] ant. 14 jtd. (O.S's galls were on midrib entirely.] [[end page]] [[start page]] 35) June 22. Of a large lot of larvae of [[underlined]] Nematus ventricosus [[/underlined]] rec'd today from Dr. Smith, 8 or 10 of the largest were very pale green, including the head, [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] jts. 1 & [[insertion]] front part of [[/insertion]] 2 & 11 & ^ [[insertion]] tip 1/2 of [[/insertion]] 12 bright King's yellow. No tubercles [[image]]. Others about same size, & [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] the small ones ^ [[insertion]] had [[/insertion]] tubercles (black) & black head. One that was pale & [[insertion]] had [[/insertion]] no tubercles when packed (June 19) had spun up on the road. ^ [[insertion]] [When cocoon cut open, = 8 or 10 above.] [[/insertion]] Placed all the pale ones in a quinine bottle. Rest in Glass jar. [[Strikethrough]] [Probably pale larva are [[two male symbols]]. Breed from all pale ones, & cut open cocoons in vase, to see if any contained tubercled larvae.] [[/strikethrough]] All become pale after last moult. see p. 36 [[line]] Gall [[underlined]] castanea globulus [[/underlined]]. On chestnut. A subglobular sack about .45 in diameter, attached by a very short peduncle to the flower-catkin. Outside (dry) rough, coarsely rugose & opaque ^[[insertion]] cinnamon brown [[/insertion]]. Inside (dry) rough, coarsely rugose & opaque black. [[strikethrough]] Phylloxe [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Xerophylla? c. globulus [[/underlined]]. [[Neuratron?]] as in [[underlined]] Xerophylla [[/underlined]]. Head & thorax black. Abd. dark rufous? Antennae very short.-- From Penna. [[line]] [[insertion]] June 23--as her label Bred a Synergus from [[underlined]] Cecid. [[/underlined]] gall Corni-ovium. [[/insertion]] [[line]] x| June 25 Imported Barklouse. Largest now about as long as the extreme diameter of old scale [[image with A]] inflated part as long as scale is largest: some have none. Younger? On Medicated boughs seem as large as on others. On a broken & withered twig all dead? & no venter : [[image]] or inflated part. [[line]] [[end page]]