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SCOTTISH TRIP 1939

21st June 1939. 
Left Dublin by 6:40 train for Belfast, Glasgow & Aviemore.

22nd June 1939.
Arrived at Aviemore at 2.33 P.M. & after cup of tea walked up birch woods N. of Craigellachie & swept birches &c. for a couple of hours.  A perfect day, cloudless till 2.30 PM., but then cloudy with a slight wet mist, which lasted all night.  Wind strong NE-E & cool, but in shelter of hill & birch wood hymenoptera not scarce.
[44 specimens kept: these labelled 10/2/1941! AWS]

N. slope of Craigellachie, Aviemore, E1. = E. Inverness  3 till 5 P.M.
[Labelled Aviemore E1. AWS. 22.6.39]

Bombus lucorum  1♀ only seen.
Cimbex femoratua  1♀ in birch
Athalia lineolata?  1♀
Dolerus picipes  1♀.
Myrmica ruginodis:  not kept
Formica fusca  seen low down: not kept
F. rufa abundant all through upper parts of wood: none kept
Plectiscus sp.?  1♂, 23-seg. ant.


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22.6.39 cont.  Craigellachie, cont.

Orthocentrus radialis Th.  2♀♀, with straight 1st abscissa of radius & quite distinct from my Irish ♀♀ so named by Roman with curved 1st abscissa which must therefore be as I originally thought fulvipes Grav.

Stenomacrus 1♀, which runs to var. of sylvaticus with broad areolet +/- distinct, but does not agree with description in Schmiid. which I suspect is a "hybrid" one.

Caompolex sp.?  small, black & red ♂
Omorga? sp.?  2♀♀, long terebra, red legs, 30 & 31 seg. ant.
Campoplegid: very nice ♀, black, short thick terebra, 29 seg. ant. yellow & black hind legs.
Mesochorus, testaceous, 1♂
M. sp.?  1♂, 29-seg. ant.
M. sp. 1 very small ♀, 26-seg. ant.
Barylypa? sp.?  1♂.
Atrometus sp.?  1♂.
Exothecid  1♂ = Colastes hariolator  1♂, 37-seg. ant.

Apanteles  1♀ sp. Sect. IV, very near circumscriptus but 2nd tergita rugose like the 1st.
A.  3♀♀ = decorus Hal.
Rhogas heterogaster Wesm. √  1♂, & 41-seg. antennae, with smooth pleura which so far as I can see agrees with Wesmaels' description & not with modestus.  AWS. 12.2.41.
Eubadizon extensor  1♂
Calpytus sp.?  1♂, 28-seg. ant. (cf. segmentatus Marshall).
Leiophron edentatus Hal.  1♀

Gnamptodon pumilio  1♀.
Opius irregularis  2♀♀, one with curious dull abdomen, possibly due to shrivelling & immaturity.