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48) [[underlined]] Atomacera [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] n. sp. at the only Hylotomide in my collection without dark dot on disk of antepenultimate submarginal cell
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Aug. 25. The number of the (carnivorous?) mites with antenniform front legs now very largely increased on the Potato Scab. All of them now have front 1/2 of body ^ [[insertion]] pale [[/insertion]] brown; before only some of them. Still a few of the white hairy acari, which I shufled on to the experimental potato.
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Aug 26 Bred plums & 2 nenuphar + 1 Hedya + 1 prunicida
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Aug 27 - 2 nenuphar + 2 Hedya
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Aug 28 2 + 1 [[nenuphar]]
Aug 29 2 [[nenuphar]]
Aug 30. 2 [[nenuphar]]
Aug 31. 2 + 2 + 1 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 1. 1 + 2 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 2. 1 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 4 [[strikethrough]] [[3]] [[/strikethrough]] 5
[[nenuphar]] + 3 Hedya
Sep 5 [[strikethrough]] [[4]] [[/strikethrough]]
2 + 4 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 6 1 + 2 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 7. 2 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 11. 1 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 13 1 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 14. 1 nenuphar
Sep 15. 1 Hedya [[image]]
Sep 18 3 nenuphar
Sep. 24 1 [[nenuphar]]
Sep 28 1 [[nenuphar]] (left in jar)
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Aug 29. In [[underlined]] Halesidota caryae [[/underlined]] (on apple, from Dr. Smith, N.Y.) there are a pair of subobsolete white pencils on jt. 3 behind head, a pair of ^ [[insertion]] distinct [[/insertion]] black [[?]] on joint 4, & same on jt. 10; & a pair of ^ [[insertion]] pretty distinct [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] subobsolete [[/strikethrough]] white pencils on 11 & ^ [[insertion]] subobsolete pair [[?]] [[/insertion]] on antr. 1/2 of 12, the latter in one out of 8 specimens black instead of white. Hence figure in Harris [[symbol]] his description. The belly is not black, as described by Harris, but yellowish white.
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Sep. 4 13 Curculio placed with plums in quinine bottle all dead.
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Sep. 11. Large larva on Blackberry, ^ [[insertion]] (from Dombeck) [[/insertion]] near [[underlined]] Halesidota. [[/underlined]] Length [[strikethrough]] 1 3/4 [[/strikethrough]] 2 1/4 inches. Skin ^ [[insertion]] & Head [[/insertion]] very pale greenish ^ [[insertion]] yellow; body [[/insertion]] covered with long ^ [[insertion]] not dense [[/insertion]] silky bright gamboge-yellow hairs curved backwards. A lateral transverse black patch on jts. 2 - 11, & a dorsal ditto on jts. [[strikethrough]] 4 [[/strikethrough]] 5 - 11, behind this dorsal patch on jts [[strikethrough]] 4 [[/strikethrough]] 5 - 10 a short black ^ [[insertion]] dorsal [[/insertion]] pencil no longer than yellow hairs, & on jt. 11 a long black pencil. directed backwards. Abdomen black; less of prolegs vermilion red: legs black with whitish incisures; 16 legged. A subobsole short pencil on jt. ^ [[insertion]] 2 - [[/insertion]] 4, which in ^ [[insertion]] another [[/insertion]] recent specimen was ^ [[/insertion]] on 3? [[strikethrough]] 4 [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] a long pencil similar to that on 11. [ Went underground, both mine & Dombecks specimens). [[underline]] no [[/underline]] cocoon.]
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In Vanessa Antiopa (Europ. specimens) hind edge of hind wing is [[underline]] whiter [[/underline]] than in N. A. specimens. See Lyell's [[underline]] Antiq. Man. [[/underline]
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Transcription Notes:
The lines on p. 48 are Walsh's 'ditto'
Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man is a book written by British geologist, Charles Lyell in 1863
Vanessa Antiopa = morning cloak butterfly
