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107. 21st. Sept. 1941. A dry, mainly dull day, though sunny in late afternoon -too late to warm things up - with a chilly E. breeze. Not an insect day & these scarce, except when sun first came out, but this did not last & the insects seemed to retire disgusted, except Stenomacrus ventralis & the ♂︎♂︎ of Orthocentrus radialis (?). Rode to top of upper reservoir in Glenasmole & then walked up to the gorge of the Slade Brook, ca 1,000-1200 ft. alt. Arrived there at 12.30 noon & left about 5 P.M. Did not collect otherwise. Slade Brook, Glenasmole, Co. DU. [20 specimens mounted & these labelled & put away 7.2.44! A.W.S.] Bombus agrorum frequent B. lucorum 1 large ♀︎ seen on bog. B. jonellus ♀︎ (or ? B. hortorum, small) seen in gorge. Mellinus arvensis ♀︎ seen. (Fresh burrows of aculeates seen on old river scarp below gorge, but none seen flying!) Ants: Myrmica spp. & Formica fusca ☿☿ active. Platylabus vitratorius 1♀︎ on birch or S. aurita in gorge. 108. 21.9.41, cont. Slade Brook, DU., cont. Ichneumon deliratorius √ 1♀︎ on birch: dark var. I. ? ♂︎, reddish-yellow & black, small: tergites 2 + 2 & base of 4 pale! Phaeogenes? black ♂︎. sp.? Cryptinae Gen. et sp.? 2♂︎♂︎, white faces &c., keeled basal abd. segment & trilobed mesonotum like Lampronota, large pentagonal areolet = cf. Cratocryptus sp. Pimpla brevicornis 1♀︎. Stenomacrus ventralis ♂︎♂︎, & especially ♀︎♀︎ in great abundance. St. laricis Hal. 2 nice ♀︎♀︎. Orthocentrus radialis ♀︎♀︎ & many ♂︎♂︎ some presumably this species, but of four mounted 2 have black & 2 red hind coxae! AWS. 7.2.44. Mesoleius 1♂︎, red abd., ant. 31. Diaborus 1♀︎ investigating larvae on Hazel Campoplex 1 red sp. on bank of top field below gorge. [No Braconids seen all day] Proctos. Common: 2 only mounted: = Aneurynchus & Exallonyx? ♀︎. Hemiptera 2 (on same card!)