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222. 1st July 1939 A fine day, with much sun, strong NW cool breeze & a few slight showers. Insects only in shelter. Walked to Loch Damph, along 2/3 of E. shore & home round S. shoulder of Ben Damph. Most insects collected near boat-house in birch scrub on E. side of L. Damph. [64 specimens kept & these labelled 5/10/41 et seq.] Bombus lucorum ♀♀ & ☿☿ frequent. B. jonellus ♀♀ frequent. B. muscorum ♀♀ & one or two workers: rare. Andrena subopaca 1♀, swept off heather on side of loch. Myrmica ruginodis } ♀♀ examined. Lasiuis niger } ♀♀ examined. Formica fusca } ♀♀ examined. Crabro (or Pemphredon) sp.? 1 seen to enter hole in bored stump along shore of lake, but could not get it out (? C. leucostomus ♀) Vespa norvegica 1☿ Anteon ♀ Tiger Beetles by roadside, one of which (taken by George) was not green but a slaty colour: this unfortunately escaped in house & was accidentally tramped on. Large Heath Butterfly & many grossulariata just hatched on boggy heath, these had evidently fed on ling in larval stage! 223. 1.7.39 cont. Loch Damph district cont. Spilichneumon stagnicola Thoms.? 1♀ A.W.S. 5/10/1941. Hemiteles aperta? 1♂. H. sp.? dark abd. & legs, former heavily sculptured, mat., ♂. H.? sp.? 1 red ♂. Other Cryptinae, 2♂♂ } = Catoglyptus 1♀. Orthocentrus corrugatus? 1♂, 27-seg. ant. Orthocentrus n. sp.? 1♀, with elongate slender abd. tergites 1, 2 & 3 rugose; ant. 32-seg. &c. no trace of aerolet, but nervellus intercepted & bent. Stenomacrus cf. pallipes 1♂, 24-seg. ant. St. ventralis 1♀. Eclytus fontinalis 1♀. Meloboris? sp. 1♀ 30-seg. ant. Angitia?? 2♂♂, 1♀ (= 3 spp.?) Aperileptus sp. 1♂, 20-seg. ant. Plectiscus? sp.? 1♀ 21-seg. ant. Apanteles black s.: sect. 2(M) 2♂♂, 1♀. A. black sp. smoother 1st tergite, 1♂. A. black, pale base to hind tibiae 1♀ Acoelius subfasciatus? 1♂. Microgaster politus Marshall? 1♂, fits this fairly well. Meteorus micropterus 1♂. Opius irregularis 1♀. O. cf. "apiculator" 1♂, 2♀♀, ant. 25, 25 & 23-seg. Pentapleura angustula 1♀, 18-seg. ant. P. pumilio 1♀, 21-seg. ant. Aspilota sciurella miki? 1♂ 24-seg. ant. A. expansa miki? 1♀ 18-seg. ant. A. rufata miki? 1♂, 17-seg. ant. A. viatica miki? 1♀, 20-seg. ant. A. (Synaldis) cf concolor? 1♀, 18-seg. ant. Dacnusa adducta 2♂♂. D. melanocera 1♂, 1♀. D. sp. near ovalis 1♀ {v. long ant. 29-seg. pale at base, 2nd tergite reddish. D. sp. n. near alticeps & pubescens. 1♀, small, long terebra, 22-seg. ant., much rejected recurrent nerve, &c. D. aerolaris? 1♂, 21-seg. ant. Aphidius sp. dark legs, 1♂, 18-seg. ant. Phenoserphids 3. Other Proctos. 5. Chalcids 1.