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11.8.48, cont.  Ridge N. of Ballymorefin [[Ballymorefinn]] Hill, Co. DU. ca. 1,500 ft. Alt.

[18 mounted & these labelled 26.1.1953.]
Swept off Calluna, Erica, &c.&c.

Ick. ♀︎, red, black & white abd. = Microcryptus? ant. 31.
Mesoleius sp.  ♂︎, ant. 39.
Olesicampa cf. cavigena Th.?  ♂︎, ant. 38.
Pezomachus sp. ant. 20, ♂︎, wingless, small & slender.

Bracon osculator  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ amongst Calluna (in flower) &c. in abundance, 25♂︎, 11♀︎♀︎ in sucker from two "sweeps";  most of the ♂︎♂︎ very tiny & referable to var. degenerator Marshall.  3♂︎♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎ mounted, with antennae 18 (very small ex.!), 20 & 21-seg. in ♂︎♂︎;  all 19-seg. in ♀︎♀︎.

Apanteles cf. fulvipes?  ♂︎
Diospilus capito:  2♂︎♂︎ - 1 mtd.;  1 very small & 2 larger ♀︎♀︎.  ♂︎ ant. 23;  small ♀︎ 21;  large ♀︎♀︎ 23 & 24-segmented.
Procto.  1: not mtd.
Chalcids  3: not mtd.
Beetles 2 (1 small Staph. = Oxytelus tetracarinatus Block, fide H.W. Daltry, & 1 minute testaceous specimen = Atomaria pusilla Payk. fide H.W.D.
Dipteron  1.  Sent to Graham Jan. 1953.


11.8.48.  Taken in back garden or motor house, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin.
Hemiteles areator group  ♀︎, ant. 22;  in motor house.
Cynipid  ♂︎ = 


95.

15th August 1948.

A poor windy day with frequent drizzle & some heavy showers:  nearly a gale from SW.  Drove, with Graham Connah (14), a boy from Bromborough, Cheshire, to "Dun Aillinne" S. of Kilcullin, Co. KD., then over the hill marked "Old Kilcullin", where had lunch at 1 PM. near the round tower.  Later drove on through Dunlavin to Hollywood Glen, where tried sweeping along roadside at extreme N. end of the glen, for an hour, while Daisy & Graham Connah, went to see the stone circle known as "The Pipers' Stones" & here took the following insects:-

3.30 till 4.30 PM.
Roadside at N. end of Hollywood Glen Co. WI.
[55 mounted & these labelled 27.1.1953.]

Leptocryptus claviger  1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Hemiteles cf. gracilis  ♀︎.
Phygadeuon? sp.  ♂︎, ant. 22.
H. sp.  ♂︎, ant. 21.
Pezomachus sp.  1 minute ♀︎, ant. 17.
Pezomachus? sp.  2 winged ♂︎♂︎, ant. 23 & bitten off.
Promethes cognatus  ♂︎, not mtd.
Stenomacrus intermedius  ♀︎, ant. 29.
Homocidus longiventris  ♂︎, ant. 21.
Cteniscus sp.  2♂︎♂︎ ant. 26 & 27.
Polyblastus sp.  ♂︎ red abd., black femora, ant. 28.