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359. 360 8th August 1946. Cool & spoiled by heavy showers in afternoon. Left home at 2:30 & drove to Delgany, Co. WI., to look for Dipteron Oxycera fallenii in Alder swamp on E. side of old Bellevue estate, but arrived just before a terrific shower, which ended sweeping for the day, although a very hot sunburst after shower brought out some hymenoptera & diptera & a few taken on alders & bramble; also a few swept before shower,: __ Bellevue, N. of Delgany, Co. WI. Ichneumon sp. ♂︎: not mtd. Exophanes occupator? "yellow" ♂︎: not mtd. Barichneumon ♂︎; red abd., white markings; common sp. Cryptinids 1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎ = Atractodes tenebricosus? ♀︎, only 1 mtd: = Hemiteles cf. politus ♀︎, ant. 22. Polyblastus ♂︎ red abd.; ant. 26.; red femora Mesoleius sp. ♀︎, ant 37 "Tryphon" elongator ♀︎ not mtd Homocidus pulcher ♀︎. H. nigritarsus ♀︎: neither mtd. H. pallipes ♀︎, ant. bitten off. 360. 8.8.46, cont. Bellevue, WI., cont. Bracon communis m. ♀︎: not mtd. B. anthracinus 1♂︎ not mtd. B. fulvipes? dark legged ♂︎; ant. 38. Apantiles falcatus ♀︎: not mtd. Euphorus grandiceps Th. 1♂︎ (?), ant. 22. Centistes lucidator ♂︎ } none mtd. Aspilota nigrescens m. ♂︎ } none mtd. Dacnusa areolaris 1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎ } none mtd. Aphidius sp. 1 } none mtd. Proctos, 5: 2 mtd. = Chalcids 1: not mtd. Cynipids 1: not mtd. Diptera 1 = Syrphus ♂︎. August 1946 continued at end of Kerry trip Vol.16, p.48.
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