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Aug 13. [[underline]] Phycita nebulo [[/underline]] & [[/underline]] Ph. [caryae] [[/underline]] are phytophagic species. [[underline]] Caryae [[/underline]] [[male symbol]] differs by prothorax head & [[s?]] being white (not gray); &  Caryae [[/underline]] [[male symbol]] [[female symbol]] have the spot on disk of front wing double ([[image]]), while in [[underline]] nebulo [[/underline]] [[male symbol]] [[female symbol]] the spot is geminate or confluent ( [[image]] ). No other distinction between [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] of the two species. Examined [[underline]] nebulo [[/underline]] 8 [[male symbol]], 7 [[female symbol]] , caryae 3 [[male symbol]], 6 [[female symbol]], all bred. Two [[female symbol]] of [[underline]] caryae [[/underline]] much larger than rest & rather differently marked. At base of antennae in [[underline]] [[male symbol]] Phycita [[/underline]] a Δ patch of scales [[image]].

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Aug 14. found H. tessellarus (= antiphola) on my pear tree. Two eggs (Tachina?) attached to hairs not to integument. Did this cause death of so many in my experiments?

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  Aug. 15 [[underline]] Imported Barklouse. [[/underline]] Scales now full-sized & already contain full-sized white eggs, but enclosed in a pellicle ^ [[insertion]] lying [[/insertion]] next the bark, not loose between bark & insect. Found 2 such scales on [[underline]] this year's [[/underline]] wood. In some scales a white fleshy ^ [[insertion]] juicy [[/insertion]] mass at one end still enveloping some of the eggs. Many & [[insertion]] dry [[/insertion]] scales (small) intermixed without [[underline]] any [[/underline]] abd. sack ( [[image]] ) Are these the remains of the males?

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 Fallen ^ [[insertion]] (late) [[/insertion]] apple now contains [[underline]] 2 [[/underline]] apple-worms, one entered at calyx, another at stalk. Of 4 apples cut into, none were empty & larvae were full sized.

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Aug. 16 Of four windfalls (late apples) cut into, 2 or 3 contained apple worms.

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Aug 22. Of 30 windfalls ( ____) __________, 23 were empty; 1 contd. a very large worm, 5 medium-sized worms, & 1 (which had been [[underline]] very [[/underline]] extensively eaten) a very small one [[ (image) ]], so small that these must have been a previous worm which had escaped & this must have belonged to a [[underline]] second [[/underline]] brood. ∴ a second brood. In many empty one very small yellow ants.

Aug. 21. Found very numerous [[underline]] D. Angusii [[/underline]] larvae on an isolated Shell-bark sapling. Mostly with narrow white lines, a few with the lines nearly obsolete. [[/underline]] None [[/underline]] with [[underline]] any [[/underline]] yellow on neck. Put them in cage. Less mature ones red [[strikethrough]]dish[[/strikethrough]] tinge to black. 

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  Aug 23 From ^ [[insertion]] 2nd [[/insertion]] lot of wild plums, gathered July 27, came 1 + 2 curculio & 1 + 1 [[underline]] Hedya? [[/underline]] Two broods of Curculio? Noticed before Lepid. larva in plums. Also bred from same 1 [[female symbol]] Sigalphus curculionis.

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  Aug 24. Bred 1 [[underline]] prunicida, [[underline]] 
              +1               nenuphar
              +111             Hedya
       } from above lot of plums. |x

Hedya spins a slyph cocoon outside the plum or on the glass.

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| Aug 25. Bred 2 [[underline]] nenuphar [[/underline]]] + 1 [[underline]] Hedya [[/underline]]

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