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17th Aug. 49. 

A nice day, but turning dull in afternoon & starting to drip at 6 P.M., as we set out for home.

Left home about 2.30 in car & drove via Enniskerry to Bellevue, Delgany, where collected for a couple of hours around the Alder Swamp where took the Stratiomyad Dipteron Oxycera fallenii in 19  & 19  in the hope of getting more of it before this spot is drained & built on.  Since we were here last all the remaining trees (oak & beech) cut down, as well as many of the Alders & the whole place strewn with branches as usual.  Saw no sign of any Stratiomyids, but swept the following, mostly in marshy area at foot of field W. of the main Alder swamp & ruined mill ("cottage" of former notes!).

Bellevue, WI.

Dryinids 2 = Aphelopus metaleucus? ♂︎ & Chelogynus sp. "no. 3 ♂︎, O.W.R."?
Sawfly - taken on Alder! = Phyllotoma vagans ♀︎.
Alomyia debellator  1 red ♂︎, large
Eurylabus torvus ♀︎, ant. 40.
Cryptinids 12 - 3 mtd., including Hemiteles apertus  1 very small ♂︎: not mtd.
Phygadeuon grandiceps Thoms.? (= subspinosus Grav.) ♀︎, ant. 21.
Hemiteles sp. ♀︎, ant. 19.
Exolytus? sp. ♂︎, ant. 25.


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17.8.49, cont.  Bellevue, WI., cont.

Lissonota bellator  3♀︎♀︎ on Angelica flowers.
"Tryphon" elongatus  1
Mesoleius sp.  ♀︎, ant. 35.
Promethes cognatus  2♀︎♀︎ not mtd.
Promethes cf. laticarpus ♀︎, ant. 23.
Homocidus elegans? 1: not mtd.
Meloboris? sp. ♀︎, scarlet abdomen!  Ant. 34.  Terebra very short!
2 other Campoplegids (1♂︎, 1♀︎): not mtd.
Thersilochid ♂︎: not mtd.
Bracon fulvipes ♀︎, not mtd.
B. sp. near rugizonatus  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 27 & 28.
B. osculator  1♀︎, ant. 24.
Microgaster globatus?  ♂︎.
Blacus ruficornis  4♀︎♀︎
Opius aemulus, small ♀︎, ant. 25.
O. cf. stenops var. ♂︎, ant. 25, smooth post-petiole & rather dark stigma.
Biosteres rusticus  1♀︎, ant. 36.
Aspilota spp. 3 = A. minutissima ♀︎, ant. 17.
A. cf. sylvatica? ♀︎, ant. 18.
A. (Synaldis) cf. funiculicornis, ♀︎, ant. 18.
Dacnusa areolaris group, about 15, including longiradialis: none mtd.
D. aphanta  1, not mtd.
D. diremta, not mtd.
Dacnusa evadne ♀︎, ant. 31.
D. (G.) siniffa ♀︎, ant. 27.
[No Aphidiids!]
Proctos  9
Chalcids  1
Cynipids  5
Hemerobiids  1
Coleoptera 2 (1 minute)


20th August.
Saw Painted Lady Butterfly in back garden (twice), 14 Clareville Rd.  Very hot & sunny!