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171. 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. 172. 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??