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162. 22.5.42 P.M. cont. Coast W. of Carrowmore, WM. Atractodes tenebricosus ♂︎ Campoplegids 6. Rhogas cantherius? ♀︎, dark specimen! Earinus ochropes? ♂︎, ant. 33. Aphidius cirsii Hal. ♀︎ ant. 16. Chalcid. 1 small fat sp. 23rd May 1942. A day of gale from SW. with heavy rain in morning & showers with sunny intervals in afternoon: gale continued at night with wind shifting to W.N.W.: cooler. Old Head, Co. WM. Did not go out in morning, but had two sessions in afternoon, before & after afternoon tea, where collected by sweeping, mainly birch & willow, in shelter along E. margin of wood from hotel to quay & along top edge of fields, but frequent skiffs of rain kept vegetation wet & collecting difficult, also most things shaken off trees & bushes by wind. [20 insects mounted & these labelled 22/2/44! A.W.S.] 163. 23.5.42, Afternoon, cont. Old Head, WM. Anteon 2 spp. 1♀︎ mounted = Cryptines. 7, including Leptocryptus 2; 1♀︎ mounted. Exolytus (or Atractodes) 2; Atractodes tenebricosus ♂︎ & 2 other, red, ♂︎♂︎. Schizopyga podagrica (= atra)? 2♂︎♂︎: one mounted. Cteniscus 1 black ♂︎, ant. 26. Bassus tricinctus ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ frequent on Salix: not mounted. Promethes pulchellus ♀︎. P. scutellatus 2♂︎♂︎. Not mounted. Homocidus biguttatus 2♀︎♀︎ red hind coxae, ant. 23. H. ornatus 1♀︎, ant. 23. Paniscus ♂︎: not mounted. Campoplegids 5: none mounted. Mesochorus ♀︎, ant. 31, small sp. Lathrolestes sp. 1♂︎. Megastylus? [[strikethrough]] cruentator?? [[/strikethrough]] ♂︎, sp.?, ant. 28. Exothecid ♀︎ = Exothecus sp.? ant. 33.