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248. 11.7.39 cont. Arisaig to Beasdale cont. Dacnusa sp. near lateralis, but smaller: 1♂ (ant. 35) at 2. D. cytherea Nixon 1♂ at 1 (ant. 30) & 1♂ at 2 (32). D. striatula 2♂♂ at 2 (ant. 27 & 28) D. grossa = melanocera (large form!) miki 1 fine ♀ (?) at 2 (ant. 34). D. melanocera 1♂, 1♀ at 1 (ant. 26 & 24) D. ocyroe Nix.? 1♂ at 2 (ant. 28). D. pubescens 1♂ at 2 (ant. 24). D. longiradialis 1♂ at 1 (ant. 22). D. maculipes? 1♂, 1♀ at 1 (ant. 22/23 & 22). D. cf. confinis Ruth.? 1♀ (ant. 23/24), legs dusky, terebra exserted, at 2, sternauli short but distinct. D. laevipectus?? 2♂♂, 1♀ at 2, not areolaris, but only 21-seg. ant. in all three. D. areolaris? 4♀♀ at 1 (ant. 20, 20, 22 & 22), also 4♂♂, 2♀♀ at 2, all very small & untypical (ant. 19, 19/20, 20, 20, 2 & X respectively). D. affinis 1 small ♀ at 1 (ant. 22). Chaenusa conjungens 1 small ♀ at 2 (ant. 20). Ephedrus lacertosus 3♀♀ at 1. Praon volucre? 1♂ at 1 (ant. 24). Praon abjectum? 1♀ at 1 (ant. 18), very large. Aphidius avenae? 1♂, 1♀ at 1 (ant. 21 & 18). Aphidius dissolutus?? 1♂ at 1 (ant. 15). Proctos. 6 at 1, 36 at 2:- Exallonyx niger 2♀♀ at 2. Chalcids. 2 at 1, 5 at 2:- Cynipids. 1 at 1, 2 at 2:- Beetles 2 (1 at 1, 1 at 2):- 249. 12th July 1939. Floods of rain from 3 A.M. [till after breakfast on 13th]; 2 1/2 inches said to have fallen in Arisaig, the rain never slackening, with SW. wind all day. Did not go out & spent day setting insects &c. 13th July 1939. Rain ceased about 11 AM; after finishing setting, packed up two boxes of insects & posted same to E.O'M. in Dublin. (Delivered in Dublin at noon on 17/7/39! AWS.) Then walked to the old pier of Arisaig at Rhu, but frequent skiffs of rain made any collecting impossible until about 2.30 when a hot burst of sun brought out some insects & about a dozen taken with sucker on rotting sea-weed S. of old pier. On return about 5 P.M. discovered a number of bees on basalt scarp by road 1/2 mile E. of pier, which brought out by sun-burst had not retired, but sat about on flowers of Hieracium sp. [[?Greenweinid]] White & Meadow Brown Butterflies both seen, the former near Arisaig & the latter common all the way. The first ♂ Halicti seen of the season at basaltic scarp.