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100. 19.9.46, cont. Skerries Bog, Co. KD., cont. Bracon cf. obscurator 2♀︎♀︎ ;ant both 20 B. piccicornis m. ♀︎, ant. ? 22 immature specimen! Near last!! Oncophanes lanceolator 1♂︎ (ant. 24); 2♀︎♀︎ (ant. both 22). O. minuta,♀︎ ant. 22. Rogas modestus RP. 2♀︎♀︎; ant. both 44. New to Irish list. Very nice! Sigalphus floricola? ♀︎, ant. bitten off. Tergite 3 smooth & polished. Mecrodus cf. tumidulus, var. head black 2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎. Ant. of ♂︎♂︎ 26 & 27, of ♀︎♀︎ both 27. Apanteles cf. pallipes? ♀︎ A. tetricus? ♀︎. With tergite 3 almost smooth? Blacus ruficornis 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 20. B. humilus group ♀︎, ant 17, short 2nd discoidal areolet! Diospilus capito 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 24; tergite, very smooth & shining. Tanycarpa ancilla 1♀︎ ant. 24. Tanycarpa rufinotata 2♂︎♂︎, taken in same sweep, ant. 38 & 39. [No other Alysiids & no Dacnusids seen!] Praon volucre 1 ♂︎♂, 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 20 (♂︎), 19 & 20 (♀︎♀︎). Proctos - 11 only: all mtd. = Chalcids common: none mtd Cynipidis 3: 1 mtd. = The Coccinellid beetle Chilocorus bipustulatus L. was quite common & only six were in the net at once. One mounted others given to E. O'Mahony! 101. 22nd Sept. 1946 A very warm, damp, day, with rain blowing in the wind till 4 P.M., when temperature began to drop & rain cleared off & fine evening. Drovw in afternoon through the Scalp & Enniskerry to Poqerscourt Church, then turned left on old Bray road & stopped & collected for half an hour in ditch where dry under trees & hedge so that I could sweep. These labelled "Enniskerry, Co. WI.". Insects swept in old road from Enniskerry to Bray 1/2 mile E. of Enniskerry Church. 3.30 till 4.0 P.M. [36 mounted & these labelled 14.12.49 or earlier!] Hemiteles sp. ♀︎ ant. 20. H. gracilis group 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 19 & 20 & two other Cryptinids (1♂︎, 1♀︎): not mtd. Stenomacrus ventralis 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: first seen this autumn. Not mtd. Lathrolestes marginator ♀︎, ant. 37. Polyblastus or Erromenus ♂︎, ant. 28, red abd., black femora, &c. = Campoplex sp. ♀︎, red abd., ant 44. Colastes braconius 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd. Blacus humilus group 2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 19. Opius victus Hal. ♀︎, ant. 33. O. vindex Hal. ♀︎, ant. 35 = armatus miki. O. stenops m. ♀︎, ant 24; also 2 other ♀︎♀︎ with smooth tergite 1, but apparently this species also; ant. both 24.
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