Viewing page 171 of 196

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

318.

25.8.49, cont.  Sutton, Co. DU., cont. 

Bracon [[strikethrough]] crythrocephalus [[/strikethrough]] crythrostictus Marshall  ♀︎: ant. 33+, broken!
Apanteles cf. congestus  ♀︎.
Perilitus sp.?  ♂︎, black, very small;  ant. 24.
Meteorus scutellator  ♀︎, small;  testaceus form!  Ant. 32.
Eubadizon extensor  ♀︎ swept off alder:  a fine specimen, with 46-seg. ant.
Macrocentrus infirmus  ♂︎, ant. 36.
Opius "cingulatus"  ♀︎ = xanthogaster miki, ant. 31.
Alysia tipulae  ♂︎, ant 31+ (broken).
Phaenocarpa livida  ♂︎, ant. 27.
Ph. flavipes  ♂︎, ant. 30.
Aphaereta tenuicornis  ♀︎, ant. 23.

Aspilota spp. 6, including A. dentifemur ♀︎, ant. 19.
A. minutissima or insidiatrix?  pale legs, ♀︎, ant. 15, very smal!
A. insidiatrix?  dark legs, very small ♂︎, ant. 19.
A. minutissima??  ♂︎, ant. 21, pale legs, larger than last two!
Aspilota (Synaldis) near funiculicornis ♀︎, ant. 17 & also a very small ♂︎ perhaps same sp., ant. 21 (or perhaps ♂︎ = levis m.).

Dacnusa areolaris group 3:  1 very minute ♀︎ mtd., dark legs, 18-seg. ant. = sp.?
D. evadne Nixon:  2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎;  ant. 29 (2♂︎♂︎), 29 & 30 (♀︎♀︎).
D. cyclops  2: not mtd.
Dl elegantula  4: not mtd.
D. gilvipes  1♀︎: not mtd.

Monoctonus caricis  2♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Proctos  8: 2 mtd. = 
Chalcids  6: 2 mtd. = 
Cynipids  2, red abdomen: not mtd.
Dipteron.  Stratiomyid = 


319.

28th August 1949.

A lovely day!  All sunny with southerly breeze with edge of a depression to NW. showing over the plain & slowly approaching;  cloudy in afternoon with breeze strengthening & veering W.;  some drizzle about 8 P.M. on return journey, but no rain in Dublin till 9 AM. on 29th.

Drove to Whitehall, Drumcondra, to pick up Margaret & Howard Hudson at 9.30 AM. & then back home to pick up Daisy.  Left home at 10.10 AM. & drove to Coan, Glen of Imaal, Co. WI., arriving there at 11.42.  

Went up ridge behind Camara Hill & started into N. Prison on Lagnacullia.  Had lunch just below the Saxifraga hypnoides station ca. 1800-1900 ft.(?).  Then I swept rushy marshes by the Slaney (= 1) on way up to the site of tarns at 2,200 ft. just below sites for Parsley & Beech Ferns.  Swept marshy & rushy spots around the tarns for an hour till rejoined by Hudson, who had been working cliffs for plants, about 4.0.  After visiting the above ferns continued up cliffs on S. side, above the Beech Fern, to summit plateau, seeing only Vacc. Vitis-Idaea, Carex rigida & Salix herbacea, of interest.  Went up to summit, where found the cairn (Percy's Table) swarming with wasps, which all settled as sun went behind cloud.  On examination all proved to be Vespa sylvestris as on Seecawn (p.288)