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26.9.48, cont.  Athdown & Kippare Ho., Co WI., cont.

Very windy all evening with steadily falling glass, but no rain in Dublin & at 9 P.M. all starry & very hot.

Insects swept in scrub, below & between roads just W. of lodge at Kippure Ho., Athdown, Co. WI. 2 till 3:30 P.M.  Mostly off birch, but many off oak & a few no doubt off Salix.  Faris collected some sawfly larvae, which he is very expert at identifying, including two on birch which he said were Pteronides cadderensis Cameron. 

[57 mounted & these labelled 17.3.53.]

Cratichneumon varipes 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 23 & 24.
Phaeogenes fulvitarsis v. hyperboreus ♀︎, ant. 24.
Oronotus binotatus ♀︎, ant. 29.
& 3 other Vol.1 not mounted!
Cryptenids 15: 5 mounted = Cratocryptus cf. pleuralis Th. ♂︎ (ant. 27) & ♀︎ (ant. 29.)
Hemiteles sp. 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 22; red abd.
Phygadeuon sp. ♀︎, ant. 20.
Pimpla oculatoria ♀︎ : not mtd.
Stenomacrus ventralis ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ abundant: none mtd.
St. clavicornis m. ♀︎, ant. 18. 
St. flavicoxis m. 3♂︎♂︎, ant. 21, 21, 22.
St. (or Orthocentrus?) ♂︎, with areolet, ant. 25 =


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26.9.48, cont.  Kippure Ho., Co. WI., cont.

Orthocentrus radialis ♀︎ (ant. 29) & probably 2♂︎♂︎ (ant. 29 & 30).
O. cf. petiolaris Th.?? ♂︎, ant. 28, radius curved at apex? pale ventrad!!
O. cf. asper ♂︎ ant. 24.
Triclistus globulipes 1 ant. 26. 
T. pallidipes? 1, ant. broken.
Gen. et sp.?  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 24: cf. J.F.C.'s letter quoted in diary under date 4 Ap. 1953!
Cteniscus gnathoxanthus?: ant. 31.  Should be this sp. but propodeum not fully areolated (? freakish) & sculpture of face wont agree with specimens so named by Kerrich!

Campoplegids 4, including Campoplex  small red. sp. ♀︎, ant. 48 = C. sp.
Anilasta cf. boops Th.?  3♀︎♀︎ (one with black hind femora!) ant. 31, 31 & 32.

Mesochorus 3, none mtd.

Absyrtus luteus  1♀︎, large; ant. 43.
Porizonid ♂︎, ant. 34 = 
Helictes ♂︎, ant. 28 = H. sp.
Plectiscus sp. 9: 3 mounted = P. sp. ♂︎, ant. 23.
P. sp. ♀︎, ant. 20.
P. sp. ♀︎, ant. 21.
Megastylus cruentator ♀︎, ant. 46.
Aperileptus sp. ♀︎, ant. 19.
Colastes braconius  2♀︎♀︎, 1♂︎.
Rogas spp. 3 (1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎):  of the two ♀︎♀︎ one has short thick palps the other longer & more slender palps = circumscriptus complex; ant. of ♂︎ 40; of 2♀︎♀︎, both 38.