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214. 8.6.42, cont. Old Head, WM., cont. Taken at 2, cont. Metopuis dissectorius 1 Parabatus cristatus ♂︎. Dioctes exareolatus? ♀︎. Bracon discoideus??? a minute ♂︎, ant. 23; legs black & "orange" B. epitriptus like, but smooth abd.: a minute ♂︎, ant. 23; legs mostly pale testaceous Rogas nigriceps: a very highly coloured ♀︎, ant. 41. Aspilota atra ♀︎, small, 22-seg. ant. Dacnusa merella ♂︎, ant. 37. D. ovalis group ♀︎, ant. 31. Aphidius cf. nigripes m. ♂︎, dark legs, ant. 20. Proctos. 4 Chalcid 1. 215. 9th June 1942. Left Louisburgh by hotel car & caught early train to Dublin & so home. Did not collect! 10th June 1942. Took ♀︎ Clistopyga sauberi Brauns investigating holes in clothes-line post in back garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin. NB. This is the dark species often taken in the garden before & logged as C. incitator but J.F. Perkins does not think it is a dark variety of that species. Labelled & put away! 8.4.1944. Long horn beetle: Pogonochoerus? sp.? Found alive in kitchen: probably emerged from a log brought home from Clara, Co. WI., on last visit there (28/4/42!). AWS. 8.4.44. Aphidius rosae? 2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, emerged from stump Aphides (taken on Rosa tomentosa on 10.6.42) on 14.6.42; off rose bush in back garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harolds Cross, Dublin. A.W.S. 8.4.44.