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13.9.43, AM.  Old road to Tipperary & scrub on hillside above Newtown & E. of Ballinacourty C. ST. = (1) 13.9.43 
[39 mounted & these labelled 15.8.1946!]

3 Clouded Yellows seen during walk.
1 Meadow Brown seen, which seems very late.

Bombus agrorum, muscorum  ♂︎♂︎ at 800 ft., lapidarius  ♂︎♀︎ with muscorum, lucorum  ♂︎♂︎♀︎, 1☿ & 1 fresh ♀︎ seen.
Psithyrus distinctus faded ♂︎.
Salius exaltatus  ♀︎ on road near Newtown.
Crabro varius  ♀︎ } during very hot sunburst on oaks by road above Newtown.
C. clavipes ♂︎ & ♀︎ } during very hot sunburst on oaks by road above Newtown.
Myrmica ruginodis?  ♂︎♂︎ in clouds at 800 ft.
Formica fusca  ☿☿ everywhere.
Ichneumon?  small ♀︎.
Barichneumon albicinctus  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Ctenichneumon castigator  ♂︎, ant. 45, on Angelica flower above Newtown.

Platylabus phaleratus  ♀︎, ant. 40, Hal.  a beautiful ♀︎ taken on Salix cinerea bush along old road.
Phaeogenes sp.?  ♀︎, ant. 24
Diadromus?? sp.?  ♀︎ red abd., ant. 26.
Cryptinids 9 including
Pezomachus  ♀︎, small blackish sp.; ant. 19.
Phygadeuon? brachypterous ♀︎, with long terebra = Obisiphaga stenoptera Marshall ♀︎, ant. 20.  AWS 15.1.1946.

Sawfly:  Dolerus aeneus ♀︎ 2nd brood: very late.


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13.9.43 AM, cont.  Aherlow, ST. cont.

Leptocryptus  ♀︎.
L. ♂︎.
Habrocryptus minutorius  ♀︎, ant. 27.
Pimpla instigator  ♀︎ seen, small var. intermedia taken } not mounted.
P. turionellae group  ♂︎♂︎, black coxae =
Polysphincta tuberosa Grav.  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Dyspetes praerogator  ♀︎:  not mtd.
Polyblastus cf. grammicus?  ♀︎ carrying young, ant. 31, mounted on its back.
Mesoleius sp. near furax Hlgr.  small ♀︎ coloured like next sp.;  ant. 29.
Homocidus pectoratius  2♂︎♂︎.
H. pallipes  ♀︎.  None mtd.
"Tryphon" brachyacanthus:  not mtd.
Triclistus golbulipes  1, ant. 24.
Stenomacrus ventralis?  ♂︎, not mtd.
St. cf. vafer?  ♂︎ & ♀︎ ant. both 21
Campoplegid  1♂︎: not mtd.
Dicolus sp.  ♂︎?  pleura black; ant. 33.
Aperileptus  ♂︎ & ♀︎:  not mtd.
Bracon obscurator  ♀︎, ant. 19, swept off Bog Myrtle at 800 ft.
Colastes braconius  2♀︎♀︎.
Zele geminator  1 lovely ♀︎, ant. 48.
Macrocentrus marginator  ♂︎, ant. 46.
Alloea contracta  ♀︎, ant. 21.
Aspilota spp. 8 = 
A. cf. viatica:  small ♀︎, ant. 21, smooth propodum.
A. vulgaris m.?  2♀︎♀︎, short 17-18-seg. ant., rugose propodeum, too large for minutissima, I think, but propodeum would fit this better than vulgaris.
A. clara m.  1♂︎ (ant. 20), 1♀︎ (ant. 19).
A. fuscicornis Hal.  2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 16;  one rather dark!
A. (Synaldis) cf. levis?  ♂︎, ant. 24-seg., very long:

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