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212. 8th June 1942. A fine day, with much sun, but a strong keen NW wind made insects shy. Collected a little in wood N & W of Pat's cottage & the quay before lunch (= 1); & after lunch collected along S. side of Black Hill & edge of field W. of hotel (= 2); after afternoon tea walked through wood to coast & round Old Head cliffs back to quay, but did not collect. [39 insects mounted from 1 from 2 & these labelled 29.3.44 et seq.! AWS.] Old Head, woods, &c, Co. WM. Taken at 1 Pontania ♀︎. Cratichneumon ♂︎ = Phaeogenid ♂︎ = Cryptinids 10 (8 mounted) = Atractodes ♀︎, dark wings, ant. 24. Hemiteles ♀︎, black thorax, banded wings, ant. 22. H. ? ♂︎, ant. 20. H. ? ♂︎, ant. 22. Phygadeuonid sp.? 3♂︎♂︎, ant. 22, 22 & 23 = Phygadeuon? ♂︎, ant. 23 = Pimpla flavicornis? ♀︎, ant. 29. Perithous mediator? ♂︎, ant. 36. Homocidus pectoratorius ♂︎. Promethes pulchellus & cognatus ♂︎♂︎. Agrypon flaveolatum? ♂︎♂︎ (? on oak) Plectiscid ♂︎, no areolet, ant. 22 = 213. 8.6.1942, cont. Old Head, Co. WM. Taken at 1, cont. Blacus trivialis 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 19. B. cf. fuscipes m. ♂︎, dark legs, ant. 18. Opius cingulatus: a very small ♂︎, ant. 31. Aspilota 5 = A. atra? a very small ♀︎, ant. 22. A. sp. near vulgaris? ant. very slender, 22-seg. A. sciurella? 1♂︎, 1♀︎, small, ant. 24 & 22. A. cf. picticornis or clara, ♂︎, ant. 17. Dacnusa 4 = D. sp. near lateralis ♀︎, ant. 39. D. sp. near aphanta, ♂︎, ant. 27, broad petiole, &c. D. sp. near areolaris but ♀︎ with quite long terebra, ant. 21; also ♂︎ ant. 20 possible same species, possibly real areolaris! Proctos. 4 Cynipid 1. Taken at 2. [21 insects mounted & these labelled 1.4.44! AWS.] Formica fusca ☿. Tenthredella livida: a dark ♀︎. Ichneumon deliratorius ♀︎ Cryptinids 2♂︎♂︎ = Cryptus ? sp. Leptocryptus ?? sp. or queer Hemiteles, matt abd. & mesonotum! Mesoleius a small ♂︎, ant. 31.