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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.


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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.