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275. 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. 276. 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.