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102.

22nd August 1948. 

A very wild day, but much sun & only two heavy showers, after a gale with heavy rain the previous day.  Drove to Athdown, Upper Liffey Valley, Co. WI, arriving 11.30 AM, Howard & Margaret Hudson, Daisy, George & self.  Spent day about the area around the Athdown "footstick", but collecting spoiled by very strong S.W. wind & heavy showers at 12 noon & 2.15 P.M. & no collecting possible for 1/2 to 1 hour after showers in spite of sun & wind. 
Collected in 4 areas as follows:-

1 = edges of cornfield between road & scrub on scarp.  11.30-1.0 PM.
2 = birches, hazel, &c. along scarp 1/4 mile above footstick & on left bank of river.  3-4 P.M.
3 = scrub on right bank of river just at & below footstick.  4-5 P.M.
4 = Same as 1 only 5 P.M.

Athdown, Co. WI, ca 900 ft. & more

Taken at 1. 
[28 mounted from 1 & these labelled 2.2.1953.]

Cratichneumon annulator?  ♀︎; ant bitten!
Epitomus pygmaeus  ♀︎: not mtd.
Cryptinids  4: 2 mtd. = 
Phygadeuon sp.  ♀︎, ant. 20.
P. subrimatus?  brachypterous ♀︎, small, ant. 18.


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22.8.48, cont.  Athdown, WI., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Pimpla brevicornis  large ♀︎, red hind tibiae;  ant. 21;  mtd. on its back.
P. brevicornis  small ♀︎, ant. 20, fuscous-marked hind tibiae & 3♂︎♂︎:  2 mtd. ant. both 20.
Lissonota bellator  ♀︎♀︎ seen on Angelica:  not kept.
Promethes pulchellus  ♂︎, not mtd.
Homocidus obscuripes  1 not mtd.
Tryphon cf. vulgaris  ♂︎, ant. 35.
Stenomacrus? curvulus Th.  ♀︎, with exserted terebra;  ant. 21, v. short.
Cteniscid  ♂︎, ant. 30 = 
Mesochorus  ♂︎ & ♀︎: not mtd.
Agrypon  1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 38(♂︎), 37(♀︎) = A. flaveolatum?
Campoplegid  ♀︎: not mtd.

Bracon fulvipes  ♀︎ not mtd.
Apanteles halidaii  white wings!
Sigalphus striatellus Nees or rimulosus Th.?  ♂︎, ant. 25.
Macrocentrus infirmus  ♀︎, ant. bitten.
Opius mustelella m. (? = saevus Hal.) 2♀︎♀︎ large, ant. both 29.
O. sp.? (possibly a small exilis) ♂︎, ant. 26, tergite 1 & 2 testaceous, ant. 20.
Aspilota fuscicornis ♀︎, ant. 17.
A. sp. ♀︎ near cynipidis? - cf. ♀︎ taken at 4, p.106;  smooth panel on propodeum, tergite 1 +/- smooth, &c.
Proctos 5: 4 mtd. = 
Chalcids 3: 1♂︎ mtd. = 
Dipteron = 
Meligethes = ♀︎

Transcription Notes:
Unable to verify mustelella