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361.

21.9.43, cont.  Ballinacourty, ST., cont.

Taken at 1. 
[46 mounted from 1 & these labeled on 31.1.1946!]

Just before a heavy shower I hurriedly swept bushy growth at base of two lime trees on N. side of "lime avenue" & grass &c. under these two trees - not expecting much result, but to my amazement I found the net filled with such a quantity of hymenoptera that I kept this collection separate & list the contents of the sucker below - the time required to clear the net with sucker must have amounted to about 15 minutes.  Hardly any other insects &c., were in the net.  Unfortunately about 10 specimens were already in this sucker, taken at foot of lime trees along road & a few yards from the N. side of the lime avenue - this may account for a few of the odd specimens, such as the ♂︎ Blacus ruficornis or B. tripudians.  Here is the list of contents!

Phaeogenes fulvitarsis  ♀︎
Dicaelotus?  ♀︎, red.
Hemiteles sp.  14♀︎♀︎, all I think same species
Leptocryptus  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ (= 3spp.)


362.

21.9.43, cont.  Ballinacourty, ST. cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Pezomachus  1♂︎, 4♀︎♀︎ } none mtd.
Other Cryptinids  4 } none mtd.
[No Pimplids].
Stenomacrus ventralis  1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎.
Other Stenomacrus  16 (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎):  8 mounted.
St. cf. palustris??  1♂︎ (ant. 25);  & 1♀︎ (ant. 23):  the latter with entirely pale legs.
St. cf. vafer  4♂︎♂︎, various sizes, ant. 20-22.
St. sp.  ♂︎, ant 19.
St. sp.?  ♂︎ (ant. 22+)
Orthocentrus  ♂︎ & ♀︎:  only the ♂︎ mounted = O. sp.  ♂︎, ant. 24, narrow areolet, yellow legs, dark hind coxae.
Polyblastus  ♂︎ } none mtd.
Homocidus pallipes  ♂︎ } none mtd.
Mesochorus  ♀︎, small sp. | none mtd.
Plectidscids  6 } none mtd.