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in the solid flesh, with no hole bored externally, so far as noticed. (Spec.ms of Curculio & Plum Grapes shown him.)

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x| Aspidiotus harrisii on Mountain Ash. (Spec.m given me at Cobden & preserved.)

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

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A few [[underline]] vitifoliae [[/underline]] galls on Iona grape-leaves. Taylor is a smooth-leaved variety (D.r 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 [[indn?]] consumes peaches in the autumn (D.r Warder's book, p. 302.)

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

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The larva of [[underline]]  Tribalia batatorum[[underline]] Walsh jumps 4 or 5 inches high. (D.r Abraham Hostetter, M.t Carroll - is certain of it)

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

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

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Benj. Borden, Morristown, Montgomery Co. Penn" as follows has noticed Grape-vine [[F?]] 4 or 5 years. Has examined in 1867 carefully both spring & summer & can find nothing that can possibly be larva. [So with Chrysochus auratus on Dogsbane.]

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When a boy, recollects (about 50 years ago) his folks grew potatoes on some low wet clayed ground, in New Jersey, near the seashore. The whole of the 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]] Stizus grandii, [[/underline]] Say, provisions the next with Cicada. [Letter filed with MS. of "Wasps & their Habits."]

Transcription Notes:
dogbane beetle (Chrysochus auratus)