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  "My apples very badly infested with Bark-lice" (dip. couchif. - specms. sent) "In Dec. 1867 I took crude Petroleum oil & painted two trees with it, using a painter's brush. Both these trees have grown more than usual this summer (1868 & have also set an abundance of fruit-spurs
Sept. 1868 I. G. Rlech, Dixon, Lee co., Ill. 

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  Sep. 7. Miss Hobart Brings me a larva of Pristiphora grossalariae now stripping Gooseberry bushes at Port Byron, & says it is the [[underline]] third [[/underline]] brood there this summer. 

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[[margin]] Bred May 25. 1869 [[/margin]]

[ Sep 8. Recd {same shown me by W. T. nelson, Wilmington, at State Fair
from A. C., Hammond, Warsaw, Ill, a lot of leaf-folders, [[strikethrough]] eating [[/strikethrough]] Hammond's Leaf-tyer skeletonizing the leaves of apple ^ [[insertion]] & plums [[/insertion]] & tying them together with silken webs, " ^ [[insertion]] Nearly [[/insertion]] Defoliates many trees, especially in young orchards, that are in an unthrifty condition. In Hammond's own orchards, which are carefully cultivated, have done but little injury."

Length when full grown .43 inch, ^ [[insertion]] uniform in front, tapered at tail end, [[/insertion]] Color [[strikethrough]] dull greenish [[/strikethrough]] yellow[[strikethrough]]ish[[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] olive or [[strikethrough]] yellowish [[/strikethrough]] pale green minute [[/insertion]] with numerous ^ [[insertion]] pale [[/insertion]] yellow tubercles, ^ [[insertion]] some minute ^ [[insertion]] & without hairs [[/insertion]] some longer [[/insertion]] giving rise to long white hairs, 1] on jts. 4 - 1 [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 2, 4 [[strikethrough]] larger ones [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] of these tubercles [[/insertion]] placed in a square on the middle of the back, so as just to be on the inner edge of a ^ [[insertion]] broad [[/insertion]] dull black subdorsal or lateral stripe [[image]] extending from jt. 2 ^ [[insertion]] to 12, both [[/insertion]] inclusive. [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] Joint 1 immaculate; [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] with [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] a larger shining

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black ^ [[insertion]] hair bearing [[/insertion]] tubercle ^ [[insertion]] on each side [[/insertion]] in range with middle of dark stripe; joint 2 with a similar ^ [[insertion]] black [[/insertion]] tubercle, & also a pair of [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] the [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] larger pale yellow tubercles, all 4 transversely arranged. Head clay-yellow behind, tinged with green in front, with some whitish [[strikethrough]] dots [[/strikethrough]] freckles or small tubercles & a few sort whitish hairs
Beneath immaculate, except the that ^ [[insertion]] 6 true [[/insertion]] legs have a few dusky dots. The pale yellow tubercles that bear hairs always have a dusky or black dot in their centre, & there are about 4 lateral ones on each jt. arranged thus relatively to central [[image labeled A]] four A. 
  In many specimens, the subdorsal black stripes are obs. or subobsolete, [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] but even [[/insertion]] then the 4 black tubercles on jts 1 & 2 characterize the larva sufficiently.
  Spins up apparently among the leaves. Placed in Cage No. 4. Near Chaetochilus pometellus, the Palmer-worm, but that appears in June & is [[symbol]].
  a) "With numerous pale yellow ^ [[insertion]] or whitish [[/insertion]] frecklings, & pale yellow tubercles [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] bearing [[/insertion]] a central black dot & giving rise to long whitish hairs."

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  [[underline]] Haematopis grataria [[/underline]] (Common sanguineous geometra) bred by Riley from Chickweed ([[underline]] Stellaria media [[/underline]])

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Sep 10. [[underline]] Phaneroptera oblongifolia [[/underline]] [[male symbol]] makes by flirting its elytra a single [[strikethrough]] che [[/strikethrough]] creaking chirp, not by any means loud.

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Marion Hobart of Port Byron