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10.8.40, cont.  Powerscourt, WI., cont.

Colastes braconius  ♂♂ & ♀♀, rare:  not kept.
Rhogas circumscriptus group.  1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ at 1, 1 ♀ at 2, all differing inter se as regards colour.
Clinocentrus gracilipes  1 ♀ at 1.
Acoelius subfasciatus?  1 at 1.
Apanteles sp. near falcatus, but tergite 1 smoother & tegulae dark.  ♀ at 1.
Meteorus cf. pulchricornis?  1 ♂, but ant. 34-segmented, &c.

Eubadizon extensor  1 ♂, ♀♀ common at 1
E. flavipes Hal.  1 ♀ at 1, with 23-seg. ant. & an apparently depauperate ♂, with only 19-seg. ant.
Blacus sp.  1 ♂: not kept.
Diospilus capito  1 ♂ at 1.
Opius lunulatus miki:  2 ♂♂ at 2, with 25 & 26-seg. ant.

Aphaereta tenuicornis  ♂ & ♀ at 2.
Adelura distigma:  1 lovely ♀ at 1, antennae 47-seg.
Aspilota  1 ♂ from 1;  5 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀ at 2 = A. nigrescens?  ♂ & ♀ at 2, with legs not darkened.
A. fuscicornis  1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ at 2, ant. ♂ 16, ♀ 16 - These sent to Nixon Nov. 1943, 17 & 17-segmented.
A. picticornis miki?  1 ♀ at 2, head widened (a little!), ant. 18.
A. sp.? surcularia group, very small ♀, ant. as long as body, 17-seg. at 2.
A. cf. falsifica?  ♂ at 2, ant. 23 but wings wrong.
A. crassifemur  ♂ at 2, ant. 27.
A. indivisus?  ♂ at 1, ant. 23.
A. grandipennis?  ♂ at 2, ant. 24.
A. (Synaldis) parvicornis  ♀ at 2, ant. 14.


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10.8.40, cont.  Powerscourt, WI., cont.

Dacnusa lateralis frequent:  ♂ & 2 ♀♀ from 2 kept.  1 ♀ has only 36-seg. ant. & is small.
D. sp. nw. near last.  1 ♀, all red legs, reddish abd. & ant. at 2.
D. aphanta?  1 ♀ at 2.
D. pubescens  1 very small ♀, not kept.
D. areolaris  several:  none kept.

Praon volucre  2 ♂♂ at 2.

Aphidius sonchi or cirsii Hal.?  1 ♀ at 2.  ? are these two spp. not the same.

Proctos.  Only a few & only kept 2 from 1 & 5 from 2 
= Phaenoserphus calcar Hal.  1 ♂ at 1 & another ♂ at 2.
Exallonyx microcerus Kief.?  ♀ at 2.

Red bug on birth =


11th Aug. 1940.  Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Dublin
A fresh-looking ♀ Bombus lucorum gathering & with heavy load of red pollen on flowers of Hypericum hirsutum at 10 AM.  ? recently emerged from hibernation??