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208.)

23rd. June 1935. Very warm, calm, but little sun.
Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU, as before.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] at honey-due on Currant bushes: ? hibernated.
[[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] at Snapdragons.
[[underlined]] Andrena nigroaenea [[/underlined]] 1 very worn [[male symbol]], carrying several larvae of Meloë, seen & examined several times. [[underlined]] Very late date! [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Halictus [[/underlined]] sp. (? [[underlined]] albipes [[/underlined]]) 1 [[female symbol]] seen covered with pollen go into ground under Mossy Saxifrage clump below cross path at clothes line posts.
[[underlined]] H. leucopus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] at [[underlined]] Geranium [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Campanula [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] Megachile versicolor [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 male symbols]] & 1 [[female symbol]], very fresh taken.
[[underlined]] Hylaeus communis [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] in hole in post, 1 [[female symbol]] at [[underlined]] Campanula [[/underlined]].
[No [[underlined]] Vespa [[/underlined]] seen all day!]
[[underlined]] Odynerus pictus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] seen.
[Currant Clearwing moth: 5 taken: these sit with wings at same angle & look superficially like an [[underlined]] Odynerus [[/underlined]] !]
[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] several about post all day: 3 [[2 male symbols]] & 1 [[female symbol]] seen on post at one time the previous afternoon.
[[underlined]] Pemphredon shuckardi [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] Spilomena troglodytes [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] at post & 1 [[male symbol]] taken the previous evening.
[[underlined]] Crabro leucostomus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[underlined]] C. varius [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] as usual.

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209.)

23/6/35/ cont. Garden cont.
[[underlined]] Crabro clavipes [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]], 1st seen 1935, at currant bush.

[[underlined]] Pachynematus clitellatus [[/underlined]] ?? 1 [[female symbol]] caught flying.

[[male symbol]] ick, vol 1 or 2, red, white points, at white currant.

[[underlined]] Clistopyga [[strikethrough]] incitator [[/strikethrough]] sauberi [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] Brauns [[/insertion]] 1 very small black [[male symbol]] at post.
[[underlined]] Oedematopsis scabricula [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] at white currant bush.
[[underlined]] Perithous divinator [[/underlined]] at currant & rose bushes; 1 [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Homocidus pictus [[/underlined]] ? 2 [[2 female symbols]], the only Bassids seen all day.
[[underlined]] Mesoleius [[/underlined]] ? 1 reddish [[male symbol]] at [[Rhamnus?]]

[[underlined]] Aspilota [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]].
Chalcids 3, all at post, & simulating [[underlined]] Spilomena [[/underlined]] ?

Transcription Notes:
Reviewed. Agreed with transcription of [[honey-due?]], [[hibernated?]], [[points?]] so took them out of brackets. Particularly love Stelfox's "honey-due" maybe he had bills owing that day? :-) -@siobhanleachman