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18/11/36 cont.  Slade or Saggart, DU. cont.

[[underlined]] Stenomacrus ventralis [[/underlined]], very common & more [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] than [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]], & only one [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] kept, [[female symbol]] very dark var., both mtd. on same card!
[[underlined]] Campoplegid [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]
[[underlined]] Mesochorus [[/underlined]] sp. 1 [[male symbol]]
[[underlined]] Meteorus scutellator [[/underlined]] ? 1 beautiful [[female symbol]]
[[underlined]] Adelura flaviventris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Aspilota [[/underlined]] sp. 3 [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] (mtd. on one card)
A. sp.? 1 [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] ? same sp.

[[underlined]] Dacnusa longiradialis [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]], 3 or 4.
D. aphanta [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] several [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]].

[[underlined]] Aphidius [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]

[[underlined]] Proctos [[/underlined]] 2

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82.)

22nd Nov. 1936.  A lovely day, after the 4th clear frosty night in succession, sun quite warm at midday & no trace of wind, but frost on grass & all day where sun's rays did not strike;  cf. corresponding day (23rd) in 1935.  Rode to Slade via Saggart & arrive a few minutes after 12 noon & stayed till 3 P.M.  Entered Slade by head of old coach road, on west side, & first swept some dead bracken under oak, &c. beside this road & under [[strikethrough]] new [[/strikethrough]] present road from Saggart to Brittas.  At first sweep I got 45 hymenoptera, so tried same place again & at second sweep took 27:  2 1/2 hours later I again swept this place & took 6 hymenoptera only.  As sun could not have been on this spot owing to tilt of trees to S.E., some still with leaves on, it therefore seems clear that these insects had spent the night in withered fronds of the bracken, yet in spite of quite hard frost all night they were quite active.  Most of the specimens were [[underlined]] Stenomacrus ventralis [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]].  Later tried similar bracken in various parts of the Slade but took hardly a specimen by