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[[Other?]] on mt. ash [[Amable?]] Lakes, Aug 5

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Feb 17 1897
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at 4-7 in [[position?]] of nest [[as?]] [[?]] looped up, 12 a little enlarged d. wart i rather large, iv - vi small but normal, hairs very few black i - iii pale the rest with a few shiny fine dark 2° hairs. A broken narrow yellowish white S-d line along ii, i shaded with brownish purple in the area just around it especially on 12 but all the shading rather faint Spiracles dark brown, small. [[insertion]] July 11 [[/insertion]] [[underlined]] One [[same went down?]] [[/underlined]] or the shading may be more extensive reaching upper side of ii and suggesting a filling in of d space as in young [[underlined]] radcliffei [[/underlined]] which it would then very closely resemble if not be identical: W with only a little brown line around i [Smaller than 492, 12 not sharply angled head more green, d. space not all filled in]
[[underlined]] Came out [[/underlined]] 1895 Cat nos. 11500-1
[[underlined]] Microcoelia fragilis [[/underlined]]
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[[underlined]] Tortricidia [[/underlined]] possibly [[underlined]] testacea [[/underlined]] in white birch, Keene Valley, N.Y. July 9 1894 Like [[underlined]] T. pallida [[/underlined]] except the dorsal patch forms a narrow band on 4-5 and 11-13, widening out regularly to S-v ridge on 8 with scalloped edge 3 [[image - dorsal view of caterpillar]] 13 [[image - another dorsal view of caterpillar]] Outline elliptical, head below 2, 2 below 3 13 slightly guadrate but hardly noticeable. A slight S-d and considerable super stig. ridge. A seires of black impressed spots in pale semicircular areas, dorsally, another lateral; a series of similar impressed pale areas each side S-d ridge and one above super-stig ridge, a little alternating with the black dots. D. region narrow, lateral a little concave, S-v region small perpendicular Smooth, minutely watery granular