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164. 23.5.42, Aft. cont. Old Head, WM. cont. Euphorus sp. nov. 1 (♂︎?) short head, with raised vertex, red spot over eye, &c. Diospilus capito? 1♀︎. Oenone 1: not mounted. Dacnusa areolaris 1♂︎: not mounted. Trioxys curtus sp. n. ♀︎. Type! AWS. 25.2.1944. Tergite 1 short & broad pleura matt, face & body black, except pale parts of tergite 1, &c. Praon ♂︎, ant. 27, with discocubital nerve scarcely visible! Procto. 1 } none mounted Cynipids 6 } none mounted Chalcid 1 } none mounted Sawflies Dolerus picipes ♂︎ Athalia lineolata ♂︎: not mounted. Sp. on birch with clouded wings 3♀︎♀︎ = Scolioneura betuleti 1♀︎. Nematine ♂︎, yellow-marked head = Pteronidea oligospila? Tenthredo "arenata" 1♀︎ swept by stream: not mounted 165. 24th May 1942. A wild day, after a stormy night, but no serious showers; mild in shelter; with considerable sun. Did not collect in morning! In afternoon, between dinner & aft. tea (3 till 5 P.M.) swept in two places along E. margin of woods from hotel to N. of quay:- top of first field N. of stream & particularly top corner of second field; almost entirely taken on lee side of Salix bushes = 1; swept off birch, hazel & Salix, &c., at edge of wood (near sea) N. of quay = 2. Old Head, Co. WM. Bombus lucorum ♀︎♀︎ & 2☿☿ seen (one at hotel & the other on Pedicularis sylvatica at 1). Nomada marshamella ♂︎ Nomada bifida ♂︎ at 2. B. agrorum ♀︎♀︎ at 1 & 2. Andrena fucata ♀︎ on V. Creeper on hotel. Vespa rufa ♀︎ at hotel on Virginia Creeper at hall door. Pemphredon lethifer ♂︎ picked off grass at 1 by Daisy. Anteon 2 spp. frequent on Salix at 1, also at 2 = A. [[?otiartes]] ♂︎? 1 mounted from 1 A. sp. with short yellowish antennae, 2♂︎♂︎ mounted from 1. Aphelopus melaleucus ♂︎ at 1. Dolerus nigratus ♀︎ at 1 Pontania spp. frequent at 1. Pteronidea? 2♂︎♂︎, with yellow heads, at 1 = P. polyspila? & P. sp. ? Athalia lineolata ♂︎ at 1. A. [[strikethrough]] cordata? var. [[/strikethrough]] lineolata ♀︎ at 1, yellow on pleura.