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in the solid flesh, with no hole bored externally, so far as noticed. (Specms. of Curculio & Plum [[groups?]] shown him.)

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  Aspidiotus Harrisii on Mountain Ash. (Specm. given me at Cobden & preserved.)

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Bucculatrix [[underline]]  pomifoliella [[/underline]] ^ [[insertion]] (Clemens) [[/insertion]] Cocoon on apple bark at Cobden [[?]] me & preserved.

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  A few [[underline]] vitifoliae [[/underline]] galls on Iowa grape-leaves. Taylor is a smooth-leaved variety (Dr. Morse) & as Husmann says bears [[underline]] vitifoliae [[/underline]] galls. Delaware vine is sometimes covered with these galls.

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Tree frogs change color like the Chameleon (Holcomb & Clark)

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Cetonia india consumes peaches in the autumn (Dr. Warder;s book, p. 302.)

Dec 11th. On Apple bark (with Pemphigus pyri) from W. C. Flagg, Alton, received a specimen of a [[underline]] Psylla [[/underline]] very closely allied to [[underline]] pyri [[/underline]] but distinct. Ant. [[underline]] much [[/underline]] shorter & costal vein in front wing [[image]] (not [[image]]).

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The larva of [[underline]] Tribalia batatorum [[/underline]] Walsh pumps 4 or 5 inches high. (Dr. Abraham Hostetter, Mt. Carroll -- is certain of it.)

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judge Owen, Herkimer Co. N.Y. starved out "wire-worms" by 1 years fallow, plowing 3 or 4 times. P. F. Nov 16. p 308

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  A fleshy California plant grows after immersion in boiling water & drying. P. F. Nov. 16? 67 p. 310

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Benj. Borden, Morristown, Montgomery Co. Penna: as follows has noticed Grape-vine Fidia 4 or 5 years. Has examined in 1867 carefully bot spring & summer & can find nothing that can possible be larva. [So with Chrysochus auratus on Dogsbane.]

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When a boy, recollects (about 50 years ago) his folks brew potatoes on some low wet clayey ground, in New Jersey, near the seashore. The whole of this ground was infested with "white grub." In taking up the potatoes, we turned up many of the grubs, dead, with two little plants growing one from each side of the head. An older brother & myself examined these & pronounced it a fungus growth.

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[[underline]] Stirzus grandis, [[underline]] Say, provisions its nest with Cicada. [Letter filed with MS. of "Wasps & their Habits."]

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Transcription Notes:
"Walsh's description of the gall-fly of Tribalia batatorum agrees fairly well with Rhodites radicum, and it is undoubtedly the same"