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91) [[margin]] nearly killed: worst of all [[/margin]] [[line]] [[right margin]] sol. [[underline]] Saleratus [[//underline]] [[underline]] Brine. [[// underline]] [[underline]] Soapsoads [[//underline]] [[underline]] Sol. Hellebon [[//underline]] [[underline]] Sol. Carbolic acid [[//underline]] [[underline]] Sol. Sulph. iron [[//underline]] [[underline]] Whitewash [[//underline]] [[/margin]] No 7 (upper bough) plenty [[male symbol]] No. 9. Pretty dead. Fewer, but 5 or 6 at least. No. 10 Plenty. No. 11 [[Plenty]] No. 12 [[Plenty]] [[note spanning No. 10-12]] } the greenest with leaves of all [[/note]] No. 13 [[Plenty]] ( pretty dead No. 14. [[Plenty]] rather dead. [[line]] July 27. Shifted Elaterid - larvae (p. 86) 1st species remain 13; 1 dead, wounded in the middle; missing none. [[line]] July 29. ^ [[insertion]] [July 30 saw him again under a dead grasshopper.] [[/insertion]] Saw one of the [[underline]] Telephorus [[/underline]] peach-eating larva still alive & vigorously burrowing under ground. I had yesterday morning put 4 or 5 plums, containing Curculio larvae, n jar. Subsequently, he had travelled to one & was chawing up the larva in it. [[image]] [[line]] Larva of [[underline]] Doryphora juncta? [[/underline]] found on "wild potato vine" by Mr. H. C. Freeman of Cobden. Pale Yellow [[strikethrough]] ish [[/strikethrough]]. Eyelets, one pair transversely arrayed behind base of mandibles & another behind them a little higher up & arrang'd so as to slope a little backwards & upwards. Head otherwise immaculate. ^ [[insertion]] Dorsum of [[/insertion]] 1st jt. ^ [[insertion]] [[?]] [[/insertion]] horny ^ [[insertion]] of a separate transverse [[/insertion]] plate tinged with dusky & edged with black all round. [[?]] [[strikethrough]] 2 4 [[/strikethrough]] 3 ^ [[insertion]] each [[/insertion]] with a lateral black horny tubercle [[image]] jts 4 - ^ [[insertion]] 11 [[strikethrough]] [[?]] each [[/insertion]] with a similar ^ [[insertion]] lateral [[/insertion]] tubercle, ^ [[insertion] enclosing a spiracle [[/insertion]] but that on jt. 1 below ^ [[insertion]] & behind [[/insertion]] the horny plate & earing a spiracle. [[end page]] [[start page]] 92) the row ^ [[insertion]] composed [[/insertion]] of these [[strikethrough]] 6 [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] 8 is [[/insertion]] placed ^ [[insertion]] a little [[/insertion]] above the row of ^ [[insertion]] the [[/insertion]] 3 thor. tubercles. ^ [[insertion]] & the [[/insertion]] Last ^ [[insertion]] 4 are gradually smaller & [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] of [[?]] 7 [[/strikethrough]]. Legs ^ [[insertion]] dusky. [[strikethrough]] immaculate. [[/strikethrough]] Tips of mandibles dusky. Dorsum of jts. 8 & 9 [[insertion]] [[superscript]] 2 [[/superscript]] all the [[/insertion]] coxae [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] exteriorly a little dusky, the 2 hinder pairs each more & more so; [ [[superscript]] 1 [[/superscript]] a double dusky ^ [[insertion]] & honey [[/insertion]] spot above [[strikethrough]] middle & hind [[/strikethrough]] the coxae.] [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] an exterior dusky dot on the tip of the femur & tibia; tarsus small, one jd, dusky & with a dusky claw. [[line]] About 1/2 a crop of grain in Page Co., Ia, left by grasshoppers (P.F. p. 40 - 1868) [[line]] Arma spinosa preys on larva of Prishphora grossularia . Latter stripped gooseberry bushes generally at Port Byron in 1867 & 1868; in '67 (not '68) took currant bushes also, but not so badly as gooseberries. [[line]] Odynerus (small) makes its clay next in holes in cotton-spools ^ [[insertion]] & other holes [[/insertion]] [Miss Hobart. Aug. 1st.) [[line]] Aug 2. Of all my [[underline]] Gortyna mitela [[strikethrough]] zeae [[/strikethrough]] [[/underline]]larvae, found in potato at [[strikethrough]] Champaign [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] Sacon [[/insertion]], but 1 remains. There were 4 or 5 a week ago on shifting. [[line]] Aug 2. Bred [[underline]] Philampelus Achemon [[/underline]] from one of 3 larvae fed this same summer. Heard of another such case at Geneseo formerly. [Other 2 ditto] Aug 3. Thermometer at 70° in Cellar. [[line]] Prodenia commelinae (noctuad) bred by Riley from [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] cutworm-like larvae ^ [[insertion]] (3) [[/insertion]] found under [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]a board at South Pass. (Figured by Riley) [[end page]]