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310. 21st Aug. 49. A very hot day, but mainly cloudy & close with southerly breeze - almost none in afternoon - & thunder to west after 5 P.M. Left home in car about 10 A.M. (George, Daisy & I) & drove via Portarlington to Woodbrook House, QC., where collected by sweeping in 3 areas; then drove back to Landenstown on Grand Canal via Rathangan, Kilmeague & Prosperous, where collected in barley & oat-fields. Left Landenstown at 5.40 & home about 6.30 P.M. with thunderstorms to W. & N. Collected in following places:- 1 = Cut away bog just E. of N. gate (in ruins) of Woodbrook Ho. 2 = Flat boggy heath, with alder & willow scrub, drains &c. N. of Woodbrook House & E. of Mountmellick Canal & also E. edge of said canal about 1 mile N. of last station & near Portarlington road. All QC. 3 = Edge of oat & barley fields, S. of plantation 1/4 mile E. of Landenstown House & S. of road & canal, Co. KD. Brimstone Butterfly (G. Rhamni) seen at 1 at lunch time. 311. 21.8.49. Woodbrook Ho. bog, Co. Q.C. Insects taken at 1. 11.30-1.0 P.M. [1 labelled 29.10.51] Cryptinids 3 [No other Icks! seen here!] 2 mtd. = Hemiteles cf. gracilis ♂︎, ant. 19. Phygadeon subrimatus ♀︎, ant. 18: brachypterous! Bracon osculator v. degenerator ♀︎, but antennae only 21-seg. Oncophanes lanceolator 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 21. Chelonus cf. secutor 2♂︎♂︎ (ant. 25), 2♀︎♀︎ (ant. both 22) = these subsequently named "pedator Dahl. = secutor Marshall", by Marcus Graham, in 1954. - see also p.312 ->; & C. 1. Sigalphus caudatus ♀︎: not mtd. Diospilus capito small dark ♀︎, ant. 20: a very minute example & not morosus!! Opius paganus m. ♀︎, ant. 20: a small +/- testaceous ♀︎! O. exilis ♀︎, ant. 25. Phaenocarpa eugenia 1 lovely ♂︎, ant. 50. Aspilota sp.? ant. 23. ♂︎ with dimple, smooth propodeum, very elongate ant. segs.; narrow tergite 1. A. cynipidis ♀︎, ant. 20, red tergite 1. Dacnusa (P.) discolor ♀︎, ant. 23; small. Aphidius sp. ♂︎: not mtd. Proctos 5: none mtd. Chalcids 6: 1 Mymarid only mtd. = Hemerobius 1 = Dipteron 1 = Meligethes? = Staphilinid beetle? off Typha = ♀︎