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218. 29.6.39 cont. Path through woods (mainly pine plantation) at Ben Damph House, Torridon, Ross West [= RW] 5 till 6 P.M. Very windy in open & grass, &c., rather wet after shower, but insects frequent in shelter. 79 specimens taken & these labelled 30/9/1941 AWS. Bombus lucorum ♀♀ & ☿☿ common on raspberry & blackberry flowers at edge of wood. B. hortorum 1♀ at Delphinium in garden at "Bay View". B. muscorum ♀♀ & ☿☿, a few, with lucorum. B. pratorum 1☿ on blackberry flower with last. Anteon 1♂. Allantus calceatus 1♀, with abortive wings. Barichneumon albicinctus (= locutor Thumb.) ♂, var. anus black. Phygadeuon (?) sp.? 3♂♂, 1♀ (?all same sp.) Hemiteles aperta Thoms.? 2♂♂, with 21-seg. ant. Polysphincta (Acrodactyla) madida Hal. 1 nice ♀, & 1♂. Promethes scutellatus 1♂. P. sulcator 1♀. Catoglyptus fortipes 1♀. 219. 29.6.39 cont. Ben Damph Ho., Torridon, Co. RW. cont. Cteniscus 2♂♂. Stenomacrus cubiceps Thoms. 1♂. Leptopygus harpurus? 2♂♂. Aperileptus sp. 3♂♂, 1♀. Plectiscus 3♂♂, ? all one species, with 20, 22 & 23 seg. ant. Plectiscids: 1♂, no areolet = }. Gen.? 1♂, 1♀ with sculptured 1st & 2nd tergite. Bracon variator? 1♀, rather small, with almost black legs, &c. Apanteles circumscriptus? 2♂♂, 1♀. Apanteles black spp.? 7♂♂, 1♀. Opius hians miki A beautiful ♂ (see p.198, ante), with 53-seg. ant. O. sp. ♂, with torn-off wings & 22-seg. ant: possibly irregularis, var. with faintly striate 2nd tergite. O. "apiculator"?? 1 small ♂, with 22-seg. ant. & 1 (? ♂ or ♀) with orbicular abd. & 24-seg. ant. O. xanthogaster = ?cingulatus sp. n. miki - put in type coll. 2.10.1941, near O. lunulatus miki, but ant. 33 seg. &c. Adelura florimela 1 fine ♀, with 50-seg. ant. A. flaviventris 3♂♂. Aspilota 3♂♂ (? of 3 spp.) with 25, 22 & 21-seg. ant. = { A. cf. minutissima miki 1♀, 17-seg. ant. A. (Synaldis) cf. concolor 1♂, 20-seg. ant. Dacnusa melanocera 2♂♂ 26-seg. ant. D. adducta 1♀, 30-seg. ant. D. aphanta 1♂, 1♀, 25 & 24-seg. ant. resp. D. longiradialis 1♂, 21-seg. ant. Monoctomus caricis 1♀, with 14-seg. ant. Aphidius spp. 2♂♂ 1♀, with 20, 19 & 17-seg. ant. resp. Proctos. 14 examples = P.T.O.