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329. 2.8.44 cont. N Bull, DU., cont. Taken at 4. [25 mounted from 4 & these labelled 7.11.1947!] Cryptinids 2♂︎♂︎, & 1♀︎ (Pezomachus fasciatus): only 1 mtd. = Hemiteles cf. gracilis ♂︎, ant. 19. Pimpla turionellae group 2♂︎♂︎, black coxae: not mtd. Lissonota bellator ♂︎: not mtd. L. cf. erribunda or artemisiae? 3♂︎♂︎: 1 mtd., ant. 36 Mesochorus 2 spp. 2♀︎♀︎ = M. small, ant. 34. M. large, ant. 41. Campoplegids 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd. Thersilochids ♂︎♂︎ common on alder (1 mtd.): 1 mtd. = ♂︎, ant. 23. Bracon "degenerator" 1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 25, 25 & 23/24 respectively. Apanteles fulcatus 2♂︎♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎: none mtd. A. fulvipes group ♂︎: not mtd. Perilitus cf. aethiops 1 small ♂︎: not mtd. Meteorus rubens 13♀︎♀︎; as usual common here all over flat area. 3 mtd. 2 small have 24-seg. ant. & the 3rd (larger) has ant. 26. Diospilus capito 1♂︎, ant. 23 Aspilota spp. 2♂︎♂︎ = A. fuscecens (= vulgaris nobis [[?olivus]]!) mike? ant. both 21. Coelinius n. sp. Sligo? ♂︎, ant. 40. Phenoserphid 6♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, possibly same species, about alders: 2 mtd. = Other Procto. 1 (mounted) = 330. 2.8.44, cont. N. Bull, DU., cont. Taken at 4, cont. Chalcids 9, a fat, heavily rugose species abundant on Euphorbia paralias on outer dunes! Three mtd. on same card = ; also one other sp. = Red dipteron, black marked thorax: 3 on one card mtd. = Lepidoptera seen on N. Bull, DU., on 2.8.44. Grayling, numerous, all over. Meadow Brown; numerous, all over. Common Blue, several ♂︎; & 1♀︎ (at 4). Dark-green Fritillary (A. aglaia) several at 1 & 2. Six spot Burnet in great abundance Plusia gamma 1 on salt-marsh on way back to bus. 4.8.44. Ephialtes sp. ♀︎, ant. 26; taken on window in Trinity College, Dublin, by Dr. Bryan P. Beirne. 4th August 1944. The fifth very hot & fine day in succession! At 8.30 P.M. saw a small ant on concrete at NW corner of house & watched it for a couple of minutes & then went into house to get a tube (where delayed by a visitor), but on return it had disappeared (probably into crack of concrete!); nevertheless I am almost certain it was a dialated ☿ of Leptothorax acervorum! See note on p.345. Swifts, nearly all our birds departed on night of 4th-5th Aug.!