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8.5.49. cont.  Clara, WI., cont.

Taken at 2, cont.

Bracon ♀︎, very small
Colastes braconius
Apanteles fulvipes group 2♂︎♂︎.
Microctonus ♂︎, ant. 22.
Perilitus sp. ♀︎ (Graham).
Orthostigma sp. ♂︎, ant. 24
Oenone hians  1, ant. 35.
Dacnusa semirugosus  2♂︎♂︎ (1 Graham);  ant. 35.
Aphidius spp. 9: 1 mtd. = Aphidius cf. renominatus ♀︎, ant. 17;  small. -in spite of small size & 17-seg. antennae!

Cuckoo heard.


11th May 1949.

A most perfect day & the third in succession.  Entirely sunny with gentle W. wind in forenoon & gentle E. after 12 noon.  Went by bus, alone, to N. Bull, arriving there about 11 AM.  Collected by sweeping in three areas, as follows:-

1 = Salt marsh from base as far as wire fence along golf links.
2 = Salt marsh beyond end of wire fence.
3 = Hollow & flat in dunes, where alder bushes are near end of the Bull & dune around same including patch of Salix repens.


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11.5.49, cont.  N. Bull, DU., cont.

Insects taken at 1.
[66 mounted & these labelled 30.3.1953.]

Hemiteles  5 small ♂︎♂︎:  1♂︎ mtd. ant. 20, blackish legs = 

Pimpla spuria  ♀︎, ant. 32. P. brevicornis  ♀︎: not mtd.
Campoplegid.  1♀︎ = Cymodusa cruentata ♀︎, ant. 34.
Porizonid  2 small black ♀︎♀︎:  ant. both 20, rather short terebra = 

Bracon praetermissa?  4♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎:  ant. 31(2), 32 & 34 (♂︎♂︎);  29 (♀︎).
Alysia rufidens  ♀︎, ant. 22:  in some details (tergite 1 length of antennae, &c., very different from ♀︎ taken at The Murragh, WI., on (1) 18.9.49.
Dacnusa anasella Stelfox  38♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ - antennae not counted in most cases.  There are topotypes of my species!
D. sp. near discolor:  ♂︎, ant. 23:  same as taken on N. Bull on 2.8.44 (3), but has dark legs!  Mesonotum nearly glabrous.  = Pachysema comis Nixon in E.M.M. November 1954!
D. cf. areolaris  24 (♂︎ & ♀︎):  1♂︎, 1♀︎ only mtd., ant. both 21.
Monoctonus caricis  about 20, & at least 1♀︎ with dark third antennal segment & very dark legs:  this ♀︎ only mtd.,  ant. 13 (labelled "sp.?"!).
Aphidius spp. about 20 (♂︎ & ♀︎):  5 mtd. as follows:-
A. cf. pterocommae  1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 18 & 17.
A. sp.  1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 17 & 15.
A. sp.  ♀︎, ant. 14, cf. matricariae?
Proctos.  1
Chalcids abundant
Coleoptera 6 = Bledius limicola Tott.;  Heterocerus flexuosus Steph.;  Helophorus uncipennis Th. -at 2, not! 
=Brachypterus glaber Steph.;  Meligethes viridescens F.;  & Ceutorhynchus contractus M.  All fide H.W. Daltry.
Microlepidopteron taken at 3: not seen when labelling?