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23.5.48., cont.  Devil's Glen, WI., cont. 

- a most distressing sight.  Amongst plants on Miss Tottenham's (N.) side saw Red Campion, Prunus Padus & P. avium, Festuca sylvatica, Milium effusum & young spikes of a huge grass with 1/4 inch diam. "furry" stems & nearly 1 inch wide leaves (= Bromus?); also Columbine, pink & whitish form, Carex sylvaticus, C. laevigata, & C. divulsa;  but could not see any of the Welsh Poppy on S. bank - perhaps owing to amount of dead branches thrown into the river.

Collected into two suckers as follows:-
Off hazel, beech, oak, birch & Salix, &c. between gate at ruined lodge & top of Z road = 1.
Off shrubs & underscrub by roadway between ruined lodge & foot of glen = 2.

Had cup of tea in sun 200 yards below gate at foot of glen at about 5-15 P.M. & had just finished when terrific hail shower burst on us.

Left in car about 5.50 & drove onto dry road at Nun's Cross to Ashford;  passed Ashford at 6.2 P.M. & home about 7.5 P.M. the Talbot now being in its 23rd year & I in my 65th year.


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23.5.48, cont.  Devil's Glen, WI., cont.

Taken at 1.
[9 labelled on 27/10/48!]
[18 more labelled on 15/10/51!]

Barichneumon & Cratichneumon  ♂︎♂︎ common as always.
Cryptinids 4, probably all taken under leaves of trees with sucker.
Stilpnus gagates?  antennae red at base:  not mtd.
Hemiteles areator group, ♀︎, ant. 21.
H. sp. ♀︎ ant. 24.
H. cf. gracilis, ♀︎, ant. 18.
Pimpla turionellae group  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎:  not mtd.
Glypta ceratites  ♀︎:  not mtd.
Polysphincta sp. n.?  ♂︎, ant. only 20
Phytodictus  1♂︎, ant. 34 = 
Exochus cf lineafrons?  1♂︎, ant. 31, but hind coxae & stigma black &c.
Mesoleius sp.  1♀︎, ant. 46.
Homocicus signatus  ♀︎:  not mtd.
Promethes pulchellus?  2♂︎♂︎:  one with yellow shoulder marks & the other not;  one with much more polished mesonotum than the other.
Stenomacrus ridibundus  1 large ♂︎, ant. 24;  2♀︎♀︎ ant. (small) 22, (large) 23.
St. (Neurateles) sp. n.?  ♀︎, ant. 19, of which Ihave 2 other ♀︎♀︎ not mtd.
Picrostigeus recticauda  ♀︎:  not mtd.
Aperileptus  ♂︎, not mtd.
Colastes braconius  ♂︎ & ♀︎:  not mtd.
Apanteles cf. emarginatus N.  ♀︎.
Rhyssalus clavator  ♀︎, ant. 25:  abd. eaten by (?) Psocids!
Acoelius subfasciatus  1 small ♂︎, under leaf of oak:  labelled 27.10.48!
Microctonus cf. cultus  ♀︎, ant. 22.  Labelled 27.10.48.
Opius irregularis  ♀︎: not mtd.
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  ♀︎: not mtd.