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291.

3.9.47, cont.  Brittas Ponds, Co. DU., cont.

Taken at 1.
[25 mounted from 1 & these labelled on 20.4.1951.]

Cryptinids  13 & I think all ♂︎♂︎: none mtd.
Promethes sulcator  1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, & P. dorsalis  1♂︎:  none mtd.
Bassus annulatus  1♂︎ - not mtd. & B. deletus Thoms.  ♂︎, ant. 19.
Homocidus obscurpipes  ♂︎ - not mtd. & H. pallipes √ 1♂︎, ant. 23.
Cteniscus aurifluus  2 large ♂︎♂︎ - not mtd.
Stenomacrus ventralis:  highly coloured ♂︎:  first seen this autumn.
Henicospilus ramidulus?  ♀︎, ant. 56.

Opius irregularis  3: not mtd.
O. caesus  5: not mtd.
O. levis W.?  3♂︎♂︎ (ant. 21, 22 & 22);  1♀︎ (dark legs, ant. 20).
O. stenops m.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 23.
O. exilis Hal.  small ♀︎, ant. 24.

Pentapleura pumilio  about 2 doz. & nearly all ♀︎♀︎: none mtd.
Adelura flaviventris  ♂︎, ant. 30.
Aspilota cf. tenella m.  a minute ♂︎, ant. 20, with dimple!
A. cf. fraudatrix m.  ♀︎, ant. 15.
A. cf. fuscicornis  1 minute ♂︎, ant. 17, tergite 1 very slender!
Dacnusa areolaris group, including 1♂︎ pubescens, only 10.
D. evadne Nixon  ♂︎, ant. 30.  Very nice specimen!
D. melanocera?  ♂︎, ant. 27.


292.

3.9.47, cont.  Brittas Ponds, DU., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Dacnusa (Gyrocampa) uliginosa  7 (♂︎ & ♀︎): none mtd.
D. (G.) affinis  1♂︎ - not mtd. & D. (G.) siniffa  1♂︎, ant. 27.
D. (G.) esbelta  2♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
D. (G.) semiscabra m.  ♂︎, ant. 27.
Coelinius diversipes m.?  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 38.
Chaenusa conjungens  9 (♂︎ & ♀︎): none mtd.
Praon abjectum  2: not mtd.
Aphidius spp. 17:  4 mounted = A. cf. eglanteriae Hal.  ♀︎, ant. 15.
A. dauci Marsh.  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 16 16 & 13 (♀︎).
Proctos  9: 1 mounted = Exallonyx parvulus?  ♂︎
Chalcid  1 : not mtd.
Cynipids  4: not mtd.


3.9.47.
Clouded Yellow Butterfly seen on roadside just above "The Embankment" at 3.30 P.M.