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56. 8.7.48 cont. Royal Canal, Co. KD., cont. Taken at 2, cont. Bracon cf, exarator ♂︎ (or erraticus?), small. ant. 31. Colastes braconius 6♂︎♂︎ (all very small!) & 1♀︎. Apanteles lateralis ♂︎: not mtd. Microrodus claustahalianus ♀︎, long terebra, ant.3 with discocubital vein well developed as in Earinus! Euphorus grandiceps Thoms. 1♂︎, 1♀︎; ant 23 & 22. Sigalphus pallipes 2♀︎♀︎; also 1♂︎ [[strikethrough]] ? this species [[/strikethrough]] mtd. 1♂︎, 1♀︎. ♂︎ ant. 22. ♀︎ ant. 23. Opius cingulatus ♀︎: not mtd. Alloea contracta ♀︎, fully winged: not mtd. Pentapleura pumilio ♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota daemon, S. & G. ♀︎, ant. 18; mounted on its back! A. fuscescens ♂︎; ant. 23, propodeum semi-areolated, +/- smooth. Dacnusa cyclops 1♀︎, ant. 25; mtd. on its back. D. cf. bres? small ♂︎, ant. 32 D. confinis Ruthe ♀︎, ant. 23. D. areolaris 1♂︎, which usually swarms in plantation: Ephedrus plagiator ♂︎: not mtd. Praon volucre ♀︎ & ?♂︎: neither mtd. Aphidius spp. 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: last only mtd. = A. cf. rosae, dark ♀︎, ant. 18 Proctos 2: 1 mtd. = 57. 8.7.48, cont. Royal Canal, KD., cont. Taken at 2, cont. Chalcids 9: none mtd. Sawfly. Pontania? ♀︎. Diptera 4: 2 mtd. = Syrphus sp. & Beetle 1 = Ochina ptinoides fide H.W. Daltry. 10th July 1948. In back garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, DU., at 1.40 midday very many Hymenoptera flying in hot sun & one red one caught by hand flying round Laburnum bush proved to be a ♂︎ Homocidus elegans, very large & with curious, abnormal, black face-markings, that on left not matching that on right. ♂︎♂︎ of H. nigritarsis also flying round bush (as on 4th July!) & one caught in hand & examined. Sunday 11th July 1948. After a wet night & drizzly forenoon, very windy & dull & chilly in afternoon. Did no go out anywhere!