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16th Aug. 1943.

A warm humid day after rain at night with some hot sun bursts;  wind warm & strong all day, but dropping in evening when absolutely calm.  About 8.30 P.M. went out to garden with sucker & found many ichs, &c. lively or resting under leaves of birch, when saw or captured the following:

Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's X, DU.  8.30-9.0 P.M. (summer time)

Bombus agrorum  ☿ on Knapweed.
Apis mellifera  ☿☿ on same.
Crabro varius (♀︎?) on currant leaf:  evidently belonging to an autumn brood & although not caught & examined I had no doubt it was a female.
Myrmica ruginodis  One solitary ☿ on currant leaf during the whole half hour, apparently collecting honey dew, but never moved off the one leaf.

[22 mounted & these labelled 15.12.45!]

Ichneumon gracilentus?  ♂︎, ant. 38, testaceous beneath.


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16.8.43, cont.  Garden, Harold's Cross, DU., cont.

Pimpla flavicoxis  ♂︎, ant. 28.
P. (Ephialtes) [[strikethrough]] vesicaria? [[/strikethrough]]  ♂︎, ant. 21, front femora bisinuate.
Mesoleius sp.  ♂︎, ant. 30.
Homocidus tarsatorius  ♂︎, ant. 22
H. pictus group:  3♂︎♂︎, all with different degree of pale markings:  1 large, with yellow lined scutellum cf. megaspis so-called;  2 smaller of which one had reddish hind coxae, the other black;  both with rather matt subopaca-like mesonotum.
Oedematopsis scabriculus  a large ♀︎, ant. 38, on [[strikethrough]] white [[/strikethrough]] red currant.
Oedematopsis scabriculus  2♀︎♀︎.
Meteorus chrysophthalmus  ♂︎, ant. 40
Eubadizon extensor  ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 40 & 42 respectively.
Aspilota ruficornis  1 large ♀︎, ant 21.
Dacnusa pubescens  ♀︎, ant. 24.
D. laevipectus  2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 22;  hind tibiae rather dusky.
Proctos.  4:  all mtd.