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140. 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 = 141 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.