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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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