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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. 103. 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 = ♀︎
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