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287. 8.6.41, cont. Portrane burrows, Co. DU., cont. lunch I spent 3/4 hour in salt-marsh looking for Idiasta maritima, but pass much flooded by recent rain & none seen; some beetles & 1♀︎ Bracon concolor [?] here only; then swept around point, both on W. & exposed E. side of same & along S. shore of Rogerstown Creek in 1/4 mile (= 2); after afternoon tea continued walk along shore of estuary & so back to Portrane, sweeping shore, edges of fields, & principally old gravel "pits", dug out in years past for ballast to place where road runs W. along S. shore of creek (= 3) [31 specimens from 1, 26 from 2 & 18 from 3 kept & these labelled 4/2/42! AWS.] Bombus lucorum, agrorum (1), muscorum, derhamellus & lapidarius ♀︎♀︎ seen, but all rare. Andrena hillana ♂︎ seen at 3. Halictus rubicundus & ♀︎♀︎ at 3. Nomada goodeniana, marshamella, & hillana seen at 3. Sphecodes 1♀︎ at 3. Odynerus trimarginatus 1♂︎ at 3. Selandria stramineipes 1♀︎ at 1 or 2 Athalia cordata at ♀︎ at 2 & ♂︎ at 3. Ichneumon suspiciosus? ♀︎ at 3. Epitomus pygmaeus ♀︎ at 3. 288. 8.6.41, cont. Portraine burrows, Co. DU., cont. Barichneumon albicinctus & sp.? 2♂︎♂︎ at 1 Atractodes red spp. at 1 & 2 Hemiteles ♀︎ at 3. Cryptids at 1 & 2 & 3 = Glypta parvicaudata? 1♀︎ at 1. Pimpla brevicornis ♂︎ at 3. Exochus albicinctus? 2♀︎♀︎ at 1. Homocidus bigonarius 1♂︎ at 1 & ♂︎ at 3. Angitia at 1 & 3. Canidia sp. ♀︎ at 3. Meloboris at ♀︎ at 1 & ♂︎ at 2. Mesochorus ♀︎♀︎ at 1 & 3. Paniscus fuscicornis? or brachycerus Tho. 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ at 1. Diaparvus? small sp. at 1, 2 & 3. One ♂︎ Phradis minutus? from 1 kept - see 11.6.41, p.290 -> Bracon conclor Thoms. abundant, ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ at 1, also at 2 & 3. B. sp. 1♀︎ at 1. B. sp. - anthracinus, large, damaged ♀︎ at 2. B. near terebella & osculator ♀︎ at 2 but clear wings & rugose 1st tergite. B. spp. at 3 = B. sp. near variator but legs pale-marked & terebra shorter, ♀︎, ant. 30, ♂︎ ant. 33. B. communis miki, 1♀︎, ant. 26. B. obscurator? very small ♂︎, ant. 24. Rhogas cf. circumscriptus 1♀︎ at 1, ant. 38. Orgilus obscurator ♂︎ & ♀︎ at 3. Apanteles cf. pallipes 1♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎ at 1. A. cf. zygaenae? ♂︎ at 1. A. zyaenae ♀︎ & ? ♂︎ at 2. A. sp. milky wings ♂︎ at 2. A. triangulator ♀︎ at 3. Meteorus cinctellus ♀︎ at 2. Sigalphus caudatus ♂︎ & ♀︎ at 3. Euphorus cf. accinctus Hal. & obscuripes Th.} 1♀︎ at 1. E. pallipes ♂︎ at 1. E. pallipes 1♂︎ ? at 2. E. pallipes common at 3. Perilitus rutilis ♂︎ at 3 Perilitus sp. ♂︎ at 3, ant. 23. Perilitus sp. ♀︎ at 3, ant. 20. Opius lugens? ♂︎ 1 at 2 - mouth closed, ant. 22! O. communis 1♀︎ at 3, with dark legs & smooth sternauli, ant. 25. Alloea contracta 1♀︎ at 2; 1♀︎ at 3 Aspilota concinna: a large ♂︎, ant. 23, with huge, expanded head at 2, 1♀︎ ant. 16 at 3, smaller. Dacnusa misella 1♀︎ at 1. D. areolaris? at 2 & 3: not kept. D. disclor ♀︎ at 3. D. talaris ♀︎ at 3, small, ant. 31.