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157. 11th July 1945. A fine day with SE-E wind & much hot sun, but a jam inland & southward from midday & nearly rainy in evening at Dublin. Only a slight drizzle for a few minutes at 2 P.M. where we were, but more to south over Wicklow & inland over the hills. Took 12 noon bus to Delgany, Co. WI., & walked up road along E. side of old Bellevue demesne - now wrecked & with rows of labourers cottages, &c., on both sides of this road in places. Had not been here for some years ( ) but found the Alder swamp 1/2 mile N. of Delgany where I took Oxycera fallenii in 19– & 19– not greatly changed. Did not see this Diptiron - perhaps too early in season - former specimens taken early in August! - but swept round & about alders, in former plantation belt & in swamps in field W. of alders for a couple of hours & filled two suckers, but as all insects from same area (approximately). Came home by bus leaving Delgany at 4.45. 158. 11.7.45, cont. Bellevue, Delgany, Co. WI. 2 till 4 P.M. In first sucker. [35 mounted & these labelled on 30.10.1948!] Cryptinids 10: 2 mounted, including 1 ♀︎ with very wide areolet nearly like that of some Orthocentris spp:- = Cf. Hemiteles conformis Grav.? ♀︎. AWS 31.10.48! and H. cf. pulchellus Grav. ♀︎ or areator? Pimplids 2♂︎♂︎ = Cf. P. detrita? the larger ♂︎, ant. 23 & cf. P. brunnea, the smaller ♂︎, ant. 21, abd. elongate, brownish! Lissonota clypealis Th. ♀︎, very nice specimen, ant. 30; agrees perfectly! A.W.S. 31.10.1948. Polyblastus? red abd. 1(♂︎?) ant. 28; black hind femora. Campoplegids 3: none mtd. Bracon fulvipes & B. anthracinus several: neither mtd. B. osculator var. ♀︎, ant. 25. B. obscurator ♀︎; ant. 22. Apanteles falcatus ♀︎. A. fulvipes group 2. A. infimus Hal. ♀︎. A. tetricus ♂︎ Sigalphus ambiguus Nees. ♂︎, ant. 21, legs stout, reddish! My first specimen of this very distinct sp. AWS. 31.10.1948. S. cf. caudatus ♂︎, ant. 20. Euphorus orchesiae: not mtd. E. pallipes 1♀︎, ant. 22, dull reddish at base.
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