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169. 10.8.40, cont. Powerscourt, Co. WI cont. After tea (5 P.M.) did 1 1/2 hours sweeping in demesne, under tree, amongst nettle, &c. for 1/4 mile below gate; left for home at 7.30 via old road to Glencree & Feather Bed. 1 = deerpark. 2 = demesne. [23 from 1 mounted, 40 from 2, & these labelled 4/4/43 et seq.! A.W.S.] Vespa vulgaris a curious congregation of ☿☿ seen on trunk of large oak at 1, apparently at some sap oozing out of trunk; they were so tightly wedged over the spot that they had not room to move & covered an area about 4" x 4" with numerous Diptera skirmishing outside the "scrum". Crabro clavipes A ♀︎ fell into Gwynn's tea & was killed, at 1 Salius exaltatus 1 ♀︎ seen hunting at 1. Ichneumon deliratorius 1 ♂︎ at 1, not kept. Cratichneumon ♂︎♂︎, 1 ♀︎ not kept. Sawfly: Phyllotoma vagans ♀︎ at 2 Phygadeuon? ♂︎ & possibly ♀︎ of same sp. at 1 = Hemiteles: pallid, very small, ♂︎ & ♀︎ at 2 = 170. Powerscourt, Co. WI., cont. Atractodes ♀︎ at 2. Schizopyga "atra"? ♂︎♀︎ at 1. Pimpla turionellae group. 2♂︎♂︎, 1 ♀︎ , very small; not kept Lissonota bellator ♂︎ & ♀︎ seen at 1, not kept Eclytus fontinalis: 2 ♀︎♀︎ at 2. Picrostigeus recticauda? 1 ♀︎, not kept: ♂︎ see below! [[strikethrough]] Stenomacrus [[/strikethrough]] pallid ♂︎ at 2, ant. 29. Probably ♂︎ of Picrostigeus recticauda! A.W.S. 5.4.1943 Promethes cognatus ♂︎ & ♀︎, not kept. P. sulcatus not kept. Triclistus , at 1, ant. 24. St. merula? ♂︎ at 1 (ant. 26!) Paniscus (Parabatus) cristatus Th.? 1 ♂︎, 1 ♀︎ at oaks at 1 Campoplegids about 6 or 7 only but kept only one - Dioctes exareolatus? ♀︎ from 1. Mesochorus ♀︎ at 2.
Transcription Notes:
Ichneumon on p. 169 - looks like species may have originally been spelled deliritorius, then changed to deliratorius. (I think the latter is correct.)