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51.

11.8.46, cont.  Landenstown, KD., cont.

Taken at 1 cont.

Proctos.  Very common: about 20 in sucker:  7 mtd. = Paracodrus apterogynus  ♂︎.
Chalcids abundant:  16 in sucker.
Cynipids  7 in sucker.
Dipteron.


11.8.46, cont.  Landenstown, KD., cont.

Taken at 2. (Cornfield).
[13 mtd. from 2 & these labelled 20.4.1949!]

Atractodes sp.  1: not mtd.
Cteniscus sp.  ♂︎, ant. 29.
Thersilochid?  ♀︎;  ant. 17 = 
Campoplegid  ♂︎: not mtd.
Bracon crenatus miki  ♀︎, ant. 27:  very like exilis m. but segments of flagellum elongate & hind femora pale.
Clinocentrus vestigator Hal.  ♀︎;  ant. 26.
Colastes braconius  1♀︎ on Salix:  not mtd.
Blacus paganus  large ♂︎ on Salix;  ant. 20.


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11.8.46, cont.  Landenstown, KD., cont.

Diospilus oleraceus  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Opius levis Wesm.  3♀︎♀︎, ant. 22, 22 & 23.
Pentapleura pumilio  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, small, with dark legs.
Prosapha venusta √  1♀︎, very small specimen, ca. 1mm., ant. 14, stigma v. narrow!!
Aspilota (Synaldis) parvicornis  1♂︎: not mtd.
Dacnusa areolaris  3♀︎♀︎: not mtd.
D. maculipes  2♀︎♀︎, rather larger than usual:  not mtd.
D. portica (Hal.) Nixon  1 very small dark ♂︎, ant. 35.
D. fenestrella m.  ♀︎, very small sp., glabrous tergite 1, ant. 17 = Merites taras Nix.
Praon cf. volucre  ♀︎, antennae entirely dark, ant. 19.
Aphidius spp.  7: none mtd.
Proctos 2 } none mtd.
Chalcids 4 } none mtd.
Cynipids 1 } none mtd.

Main body of Swifts departed on night of 12th 13th after gale & rain.