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  Larva of [[underline]] Populi pisum [[/underline]] gall (See p. 118). Largest now .18 inch long, yellow tinged with green. Travel almost as well as a caterpillar.

  Have most of them now left the gall thro' a small pin hole, & spun up flat oval brown opaque cocoons with a little floss outside, attaching them to [[strikethrough]] se [[/strikethrough]] bottom of glass jar, to which they do not stick very tight.

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  Gall Populi ________.  Acarid? [or Cecid?] on lower surface of quaking asp leaf a hollow cylindrical sessile ^ [[insertion]] hardish [[/insertion]] gall (opening above) ^ [[insertion]] .14 [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] long & .08 wide. Crimson ^ [[insertion]] opaque [[/insertion]] outside, [[strikethrough]] green [[/strikethrough]] brownish white & rather rough inside: 3 galls. In one  a reddish mite dead or dormant & enclosed in a web: in another a bright orange cecid. larva, .18 long [[notepaper with image]] Bb as per margin: 3rd. empty. Same as one of my old poplar [[strikethrough]] ca [[/strikethrough]] acarid. galls?

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  Sep. 20. A sphingicampa had pupized on natural surface of ground. 

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  The common Black [[underline]] Tiphia [/underline]] was bred by Riley from a brown silk oval cocoon about an inch long.

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  "blackberry [[underline]] oberea [[/underline]] makes a circular ring of punctures in the cane" (Riley ms.)

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(Riley M.S.)

  Clemens describes [[underline]] 8 [[/underline]] Ancylopera in P.S.S.P. III. p. 509 
See if [[underline]] A. fragariae [[/underline]] be identical with any of them.

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  At West Farms N.Y. ^ [[insertion]] (Jas. Angys) [[/insertion]] [[underline]] Lim. ursula [[/underline]] was [[underline]] very [[/underline]] abundant in 1869. Other years scarce, as I represent it. Wm. H. Edwards says that [[underline]] ursula [[/underline]] is always common in W. Virg. & [[underline]] disippus [[/underline]] rare. 

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  Found under my locust trees a larva 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 inch long, curled up like an Arctian, short evenly-shorn stubbly hairs of a ^ [[insertion]] very pale [[/insertion]] dirty brown color, & [[underline]] pencils [[/underline]] (black & subobsolete) much as in [[underline]] Acronycta acericola. [[/underline]] Hairs [[underline]] no [[t?]] of yellow. [[/underline]] Placed in Cage 1.

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  Larva of [[underline]] Tiphia [[/underline]] (black) Say from cocoon (Riley). Length .40 inch, head bent down on breast, [[image]], abd. jts. [[strikethrough]] 8 [[/strikethrough]] 1 - 8 with a [[underline]] very [[/underline]] strong transversely semioval lateral pseudopod. [[image]] Color (including head) ^ [[insertion]] opaque [[/insertion]] yellowish white, labrum edged with brown. A broad impressed dorsal stria whole length of body. Segments strongly marked. Anus transversely "Sesostriform."

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