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  [[underlined]] May 1 [[/underlined]] ^ [[insertion]] see p. 71x [[/insertion]] Deposited in large glass jar two kinds of elaterid larvae about 1 inch long: with strawberry plants.
  1st simple anal jts, ^ [[insertion]] body [[/insertion]] slenderer, more cylindrical & manifestly elateride: 6 of them  [[insertion]] (+6+2+2+2+1 [[/insertion]] [[image-drawing]] p. 70
 2nd Tenebrioniform., anal jt. [[image]] doubly emarginate, body more robust, not so cylndrical: 5 of them 
  1 specimen of each preserved in alcohol in vial with large [[underline]] eristalis [[/underline]]
larva
  No.2 found in other years abundantly in house- garden.  No.1 always abundant in South garden.
  In same jar about a dozen eggs of Adipoda Carolina: found arranged regularly [[image--stack of seven flattened ellipses]] in a kind of sack or cocoon in garden ground [found 5 or 6 more, digging afterwards] See p. 78
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[[underline]] May 2. [[/underline]] Supposed Syrphus? pupa from Apple-roots (Egypt) had crawled up out of sand (& attached itself to stopper of bottle) 2 inches. Was placed last fall [[underline]] under [[/underline]] sand. tail...[[image--cup shape with ball on bottom]] - rather bristly body - color dirty ash color.

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[[insertion]] [[underline]] May 4. [[/underline]] Had crawled up again out of sand up side of glass. is certainly Syrphidous, for closely resembles those found in Rhois galls &now alive in jar. [[/insertion]]

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  Larvae of [[underline]] Hyperaspis punctata [[/underline]] had transformed inside a perfect ball of flossy white floury matter. Two specimens preserved. Larval skin visible in middle of ball. (See p. 22)

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May 5. on a podagrae-like gall (smooth, but lateral on the twig & probably solitary, as I labeled it "q. punctata) found Sept. 13 on Black ^ [[insertion]] oak, [[/insertion]] found dead in the bottle 16 spms. of [[underline]] Pemphigus querci [[/underline]] n.sp. Cottony floss under one of the hollow scales or caverns in the gall. Preserved 14 specimens.

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  In bottle with same gall 3 Q. podagrae [[female symbol]] ^ [[insertion]] Icad [[/insertion]]. Might have comeout, as usual, in April. [[strikethrough]] Abdomen [[/strikethrough]]] ^ [[insertion]] Venter [[/insertion]] piceous in all three. See J. I. p. 184 - 6, but abdomen black.

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  [[underline]] May 11. [[/underline]] Found in raking over asparagus bed 6 wireworms, apparently = 1st. species of p. 69. ^ [[insertion]] Yes! [[/insertion]] Tail [[image]] bimarginate at tip & closely punctured, near tip. Four carinae, longitudinal, two middle ones convexly curved towards each other. One of the six half as long only as others. Found also in railing [[underline]] Melanotus [[/underline]] (preserved.) May 12 2 ditto put in jar.

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[[underline]] May 11. [[/underline]] Found in rotten wood of sun-burnt apple-tree at Brook's's lot of [[strikethrough]] Molobrus (?) [[/strikethrough]] Sciara [came out plenty] [[/insertion]] pupae. In alcohol.  Breeding.
  In nest of ant (hill-mottled fuscous) lot of coleops larvae. In alcohol. Breeding. May 17 some gone to pupa. May 27 = Hymenorus punctulatus.

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Searched 3 or 4 hours in Brooks's orchard in vain for apple-worms. Found lots (30 or 40) under hoops (loose) of his apple-barrels, all but on in larva (not pupa) state.

[[line]] The sapsucker peculiarly attacks the Summer Bellfleur. Ten or 12 trees all so, & none of any other variety. A tree with part of the limbs of this variety & part of Early Harvest, had the former bored up & the latter not at all. 

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Transcription Notes:
Tenebrionidae = mealworm