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22nd Nov. 1936 cont.

by this method & nearly all the remainder were taken with the sucker or swept along the old coach road.  Ordinary sweeping was of course quite out of the question owing to the frost on grass, &c.  In fact only the bracken was dry enough to sweep, except some sparse grass by the old road under the Silver Fir trees.

Slade of Saggart, Co. DU.  Noon till 3 P.M.

[[underlined]] Vespa [[/underlined]] (no doubt [[underlined]] vulgaris) [[/underlined]] [[unisex symbol]] seen on road from Saggart village, flying strongly in sun.
[[strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Ichneumon lugens [[/underlined]] [[/strikethrough]] Stenichneumon culpator, black rds.  1 [[female symbol]] "barking" on bramble leaf, where sun had been, at 12.30, with antennae porrect & motionless:  subsequently nipped when putting [[?beetle]] into tube & so damaged & not kept.

[[underlined]] Phaeogenes fulvitarsis [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]]:  sent unset to J.F. Perkins
[[underlined]] Dicaelotus pumilus [[/underlined]] ? 2 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] (mtd on same card).

Cryptids:  4 only (all 4 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]]).

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22.11.36 cont.  Slade of Saggart, Co. DU. cont.

[[underlined]] Pimpla elegans [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]], swept under fir trees at 2.45 pm.

[[underlined]] Orthocentrus radialis [[/underlined]], none kept.  A few [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] O. protuberans [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] frequent - 7 kept.
Crawling on bramble leaves: most sent to J.F. Perkins.

[[underlined]] O. [[/underlined]] sp.? (cf. [[underlined]] asper [[/underlined]] Grav.) 1 [[female symbol]].

[[underlined]] Stenomacrus ventralis [[/underlined]] All sent to J.F.P.  Abundant in places, [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] for the first time this winter outnumbering the [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] S. ridibundus [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]], 2 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]], rather small.
[[underlined]] S. compressus [[/underlined]] Th.  A lovely [[female symbol]] swept off bracken &c., in sun, at 12.30:  just where old road comes out of upper end of tunnel under trees into the "glade".  The head of this species when [[?al]] is flat like a pancake [[image: drawing of head annotated top view]] [[image: drawing of head annotated side view, mouth]] hence perhaps the reason it collapses on drying & folds up until only width of thorax.  [NB.  On the morning of 23rd the head was still perfect, but by 6pm that night it had collapsed in middle [[?above]] so that the face was strongly convex & the head no wider than thorax!  A.W.S. 23/10/36]