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79) [[underline]] aphis salicis nigrae [[/underline]] (See p. 75) Winged specimens viewed from Coe, also wingless [[two female symbols]]? (but neither of them any anal style or ovipositor) Color of both ^ [[insertion]] velvety [[/insertion]] black, with a lateral & dorsal row of white spots, & ^ [[insertion]] on abdomen [[insertion]] & an abbreviated indistinct row inside the lateral row. Venter dull pale olive green, sometimes white with pulverulescence. Thorax of winged [[female symbol]] black immaculate, & Tarsi & tips of fem. & of tibiae black. Legs wingless [[female symbol]]as in p. 75. In both forms a ^ [[insertion]] dull [[/insertion]] white patch on each side of [same line as previous] dorsal row of spots just behind honey-tubes, & in wingless [[female symbol]] a similar patch on mesothorax. Length body .10 - .17 Wing veins stout, black. [[line]] [[underline]] June 6 [[/underline]]. Both [[underline]] Caryaeglobuli [[/underline]] & [[underline]] Caryaefoliae [[/underline]] galls now contain ^ [[insertion]] each gall [[/insertion]] one yellow mother-louse (indistinguishable from that of Dactylosphaera), many ^ [[insertion]] hyaline [[/insertion]] larvae of various sizes, & [[underline]] a lot of eggs. [[/underline]] Opened 10 or 12 of each & fount it [[?]] in all. [[underline]] Caryaeglobuli [[/underline[[ a slit below (closed), [[underline]] Caryaefoliae [[/underline]] an elongate nipple below. Some of former .40 inch in diameter. [[line]] x| On limb of apple soaped Nov. 1867 found a strongly locomotive louse a yard from base of limb, & under a scale (lifted) another. Many Ch. [[brouluerus?]] on Yellow-bellflower. Found 8 or 10 more locomotive larvae on 2 trees W of Bellefleur; also 2 or 3 of the ladybirds. Pink [[underline]] acarus [[/underline]] eggs plenty. On one of two twigs, each 6 o r8 in. long, cut & taken to office found 1 locomotive larva; & on lifting scales, found numerous healthy eggs unhatched, both white & yellow. [[end page]] [[start page]] 80) June 6. ^ [[insertion]] see p. 78) 4 Carpoc. pomenella came out from barrel cocoons [[June]] 7. 14 [[Carpoc. pomenella]] came out from barrel cocoons [[June]] 8. 4 [[Carpoc. pomenella]] came out from barrel cocoons [[June]] 10. [[strikethrough]] 10 8 [[/strikethrough]] 8 [[Carpoc. pomenella]] came out from barrel cocoons [[June]] 11. 4 [[Carpoc. pomenella]] came out from barrel cocoons [[June]] 12. 1 [[Carpoc. pomenella]] came out from barrel cocoons [[June]] 13. 2 [[Carpoc. pomenella]] came out from barrel cocoons [[June]] 14. 0 [[Carpoc. pomenella]] came out from barrel cocoons [[line]] [[underline]] Proconia undata. [[/underline]] "Hundreds on a Catalpa tree. [[underline]] Limonius griseus, [[/underline]] shaken from a peach tree." Holcomb. June. 3? [[line]] [[underline]] Diplotaxis frondicola? [[/underline]] Say "feed on Cherry, Plum, Hazel, Oak & other brush -- in fact they seem omnivorous. They feed on the leaves in the night, & burrow in the ground during the day just under the surface, ^ [[insertion]] usually close to trunk of tree [[/insertion]] leaving the holes open. ^ [[insertion]] [ [[female symbol]] only?] [[/insertion]] They are playing havoc with my young cherry orchard." D. B. Wier, of Lacon. Remedy, tramp the ground close down, where they have gone under. [[line]] June 8. Shifted Elateride larvae. (See p. 75. 1st. species remain [[strikethrough] 16 [[/strikethrough]] 17; missing 1 2nd. [[species remain]] 1; [[missing]] 1. One of 1st species was either moulting or had eaten into body of another, whence it protruded. Do not seem to have grown at all. [[end page]]