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200.) 23rd Aug. 1936. Very fine day, warm & with much hot sun, but too windy till 2 p.m. for insects, later calm & very hot. [[underlined]] With Palmer. [[/underlined]] Slade Brook, Upper Glenasmole, Co. DU. [[insertion]] See also 12/8/36 p. 184 [[underlined]] ante! [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] as on 7/8/35 & previous occasions. Noon till 4 P.M. Most small insects swept in upper end of 2nd grazing field on rt. bank of Slade [[circled]] =1 [[/circled]] & below the moor, the others taken by stream & mostly in "the gorge" at about 1,000 ft. [[circled]] =2 [[/circled]] [[underlined]] Bombus agrorum, lucorum & lapidarius [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]], not common. [[underlined]] B. derhamellus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] (Palmer) [[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] 1 very fresh [[female symbol]]; also one quite faded [[female symbol]] still working & a faded [[virgin female symbol]]. [[underlined]] Andrena fuscipes [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] abundant over moor on left bank as usual & a few fresh [[2 female symbols]] seen at work; one [[female symbol]] taken by water course 1/4 mile above road. [[underlined]] Halictes albipes, calceatus & freygessneri [[/underlined]] seen: [[male symbol]] or [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] H. leucopus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen [[underlined]] Sphecodes affinis [[/underlined]] 1 very small [[male symbol]] with last. [[underlined]] Nomada rufipes [[/underlined]] 2 ([[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]]) at scarp, with [[underlined]] fuscipes [[/underlined]] in old river channel. [[underlined]] N. obtusifrons [[/underlined]] 1 very worn [[female symbol]], with last. [[underlined]] Mellinus arvensis [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant. [[underlined]] Pompilus nigerrimus [[/underlined]], seen by Palmer. [[underlined]] Bethylus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] flying over heather: given to Palmer. [[underlined]] Selandria cinereipes [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]] (? 2nd brood.) [[underlined]] Croesus septentrionalis [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] [[arrow pointing to "septentrionalis"]] very large [[/insertion]] larvae on birch. 1 black [[female symbol]] em. 21.5.37; 3 semi-red [[2 female symbols]] em. 26/5/37; 1 [[female symbol]] on 1.7.37; & 2 [[2 female symbols]] on 8.7.37. [[continued at bottom of right-hand page]] } Subsequently (18/6/37) a large, dead [[male symbol]] ick (= Holocremna ) found in pot & presumably bred from one of the [[underlined]] Croesus [[/underlined]] larvae, which were all very large & so presumably all [[2 female symbols]]. A.W.S. 1937. [[end page]] [[start page]] 201.) 23.8.36 cont. Slade Brook, DU., cont [[underlined]] Ichneumon terminatorius [[/underlined]] One fine [[female symbol]] on [[underlined]] Salix aurita [[/underlined]] at 2. " [[ditto for: Ichneumon]] latrata? [[underlined]] I. validicornis [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]]. Phaeogenid? 1 [[male symbol]], yellow face & antennae beneath, pale abd. &c. = ? [[underlined]] Mevesia arguta [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Chasmias motatorius [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]]. Gen. cf sp.? near last, but black scutellum 1 [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Amblyteles palliatorius [[/underlined]]. 1 [[female symbol]] on [[underlined]] Salix aurita [[/underlined]] at 2. [[arrow pointing to "Phaeogenid", above]] [[underlined]] Centeterus opprimator [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Phaeogenes [[/underlined]] sp ? 1 [[female symbol]]. Cryptus? 1 [[male symbol]]. Other Cryptid [[2 male symbols]] 2. [[underlined]] Stilpnus gagates [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[diagonal line]] [[underlined]] Microcryptus [[/underlined]] ?? 3 [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] Exolytus [[/underlined]] sp. 2 [[2 male symbols]]. [[underlined]] Attractodes [[/underlined]] ? 11 [[2 male symbols]], 1 [[female symbol]], red sp. but ? all same sp. [[underlined]] A. tenebricosa [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] Hemiteles [[/underlined]] ? [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] Lissonota [[/underlined]] variabilis 1 [[female symbol]]; also a smaller [[female symbol]], with black scutellum, probably this sp. [[underlined]] L. errabunda [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]]. [No Pimpla seen all day!] [[underlined]] Cteniscus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Euryproctus [[/underlined]] ? [[underlined]] nemoralis [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Saotis [[/underlined]] ?? [[underlined]] nigriscuta [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Mesoleius [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]]. 1 [[underlined]] Stenomacrus callidulus or ridibundus [[/underlined]] } ? 1 [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Promethes pulchellus [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 male symbols]] [[underlined]] Homocidus longiventris [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Bassus varicoxa [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]]. Two caterpillars of [[underlined]] Notodonta camelina [[/underlined]] taken on birch [[or Sallow?]] & from there emerged two moths on 1.7.1937. [[underlined]] A.W.S. [[/underlined]]
Transcription Notes:
A. tenebricosa = A. tenebricosus.
-@mnathan