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89.) July 19. Two [[underline]] Clostera americana [[/underline]] [[male symbol]] came out from larvae found near Champaign. Therefore here, as well as in Georgia, the species is double-brooded, [[symbol]] New England. (See Harris) It also feeds here, as in Georgia, on willow as well as poplar. [[line]] July 22 From apples fetched from Champaign bred 1 Anth. 4-gibbus & 2 Carpoc. pomenella. July 25, 2 Anth. 4-gibbus July 23. Saw Vanessa J [[strikethrough]] C [[/strikethrough]] -albius in window, but it escaped. [[margin]] In all to Sep. 10, 8 [[underline]] 4 gibbus [[underline]] + 4, [[underline]] nenuphar. [[/underline]] | [[/margin]] July 26 1 Anth. 4-gibbus bred from apples ^ [[insertion]] from S. Ill. [[/insertion]] &c July 28 1 Carp. pomonella July 29 1 [[Carp. pomonella]] July 30 1 [[Carp. pomonella]] [[strikethrough]] Aug [[/strikethrough]] Aug. 3 1 Anth. 4-gibbus Aug. 8, 1 [[Anth. 4-gibbus]] [[Aug.]] 10, 1 [[Anth. 4-gibbus]] [[Aug.]] 11 1 Con. nenuphar; very pale & [[?]] up to Aug. [[strikethrough]] 15 [[/strikethrough]] 17 when killed (preserved) [[Aug.]] 15[[ 1 Con. nenuphar]] (crushed) + 1 [[underline]] 4-gibbus [[/underline]] [[line]] Bottle No. 17. [[line]] July 27. ^ [[insertion]] Agrotidous "Prodenia n. sp" Grote [[/insertion]] Grass. caterpillar (on corn) recd. from [[Dassy?]] went underground July 18 & came out July 27 (9 days only). Burrows into corn-stems much like [[underline]] Gortyna zeae, [[/underline]] but from the outside; eats leaves also. Length 1.10 - 1.50. Color pale brown to pale dirty green. A paler dorsal & subdorsal line & immediately below the latter & just above ^ [[insertion]] ^ & almost encloses [[/insertion]] the stigmata a [[end page]] [[start page]] 90) broad dusky stripe 1/3 [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] as broad as each segments is long. ^ [[insertion]] On jts. 2 - 12 [[/insertion]] In the centre of this stripe [[strikethrough]] ^ [[/strikethrough]] a shining black tubercle &, ^ [[insertion]] on jts. 2 - 10, [[insertion]] between dorsal & subdorsal lines 2 smaller tubercles, arranged transversely on jts. 2 & 3, but sloping downwards & backwards on jts. 4 - 10 [[image]], all these tubercles bearing hairs. On jt. 11 the 4 tubercles are arranged in a square & on jt. 12 they slope downwards & forwards [[image]] Anal plate without any tubercles, but with the 3 paler lines & shining blackish. Joint 1 as anal plate. Beneath the broad dusky stripe an indistinct pale stripe, 1/2 its breadth but 2 1/2 times as wide as the pale dorsal & subdorsal lines. On jts. 1 - 3, a large shining pale brown tubercle above each leg; on jts. 4 [[strikethrough]] & 6 [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] - 12 [[/insertion]] two smaller ones sloping downwards & backwards, all bearing hairs. Head pale brown ^ [[insertion]] (or pale dirty green) [[/insertion]] mottled with black, the submargin behind ^ [[insertion]] prongs & [[strikethrough]] [[ma?]] [[/strikethrough]] each side them of [[/insertion]] the [[image]] black. Legs & prolegs ^ [[insertion]] normal, [[/insertion]] immaculate, save that tips of latter are blackish where hooks come. [[strikethrough]] Legs normal [[/strikethrough]] greenish specimens stripe &c paler. [July 21 Moth has wings incumbent. 2 more Aug 3.] [Plenty more - 14 or 18 - recd. from Daggy July 27.] [[line]] July 27. Examined medicated boughs from p. 85. ^ [[insertion]] New scales now full-sized & contain underneath them [[female symbol]] as described by Riley. Scraped a lot off into hand (several times over) from each bough, & found [[female symbol]] as follows: [[end page]]
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apple curculio, Anthonomus quadrigibbus
