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348. 11.9.49, cont. Athdown, Co. WI. Taken at 3. [30 mtd. from 3 & these labelled 18.1.1950!] Cryptinids 20, including about a dozen very small blackish ♂︎♂︎ of a sp. of Hemiteles like aperta but with 2nd descoidal areolet complete = Hemiteles sp. 2♂︎♂︎, black, ant. both 19 & 4 others mtd. = Hemitele small sp. ♂︎, pale legs, ant. 20. H. sp. ♂︎ with large anal claspers, ant. 23. Pezomachus sp. ♀︎, ant. 21. P.? sp.? ♂︎, black, matt. ant. 22. Lissonota sulphurifera group, dark front coxae: not mtd. Promethes sulcator ♂︎ & ♀︎ & P. laticarpus ♂︎: none mtd. Homocidus elegans? ♂︎, ant. 23, rough abd.; +/- pentagonal areolet; &c. Small dark var.? Homocidus obscuripes 2, one with missing 2nd recurrent in rt. wing, ant. 20. This mounted. H. pulcher 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. H. elegans 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 21. Mesoleiid? Very like a Promethes! Ant. 26; almost smooth tergite ! & 2 = Saotis?? & cf. ♂︎ taken here on 30.7.1936. Stenomacrus stenostigma sp. n. Type! ♀︎, - narrow, pale stigma; matt, long, tergite 1; elongate basal, moniliform apical antennal segments, compressed abdomen, ant. 21. AWS. 19.1.1950. - Cf. with ♀︎ taken in Glenasmole, DU. on 6.10.38. St. cf. vafer ♀︎, very stout; dark stigma; ant. 21. St. sp. small ♂︎; ant. 22; hind fem. dark, &c. Mesochorus ♀︎: not mtd. Campoplegid 1♂︎, ♀︎: not mtd. Dryinid ♀︎ = Hemipteron = Dicyphus epilobii? Meligethes sp. for Dr. Eaton. 249. 11.9.49, cont. Athdown, Co. WI., cont. Taken at 3, cont. Biosteres 4 = B. rusticus Hal. 2 small ♂︎♂︎, ant. 34 & 38, & 2♀︎♀︎ one smaller (ant. 37), the other very robust (ant. 40. Phaenocarpa livida ♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota 3 = A. nigrescens? 1♂︎, ant. 19; very small, very blac; roughish propodeum. A. rubripes ♀︎, ant. 15. A. (Synaldis) sp. ♂︎, ant. 21-22. Dacnusa areolaris group 4: not mtd. D. cyclops 1♂︎, ant. 29. D. elegantula 1 very robust ♂︎, ant. 32. Ephedrus validus 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Aphidius spp. 5. A. dissolutus 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 15 & 16. A. cf fumatus Hal.? ♂︎, ant. 17. Proctos. 1: 1 Serphid only mtd. = Cynipid 1: not mtd. 13th Sept. Saw a Red Admiral butterfly in back garden. 14th Sept. In aft. drove to Glenasmole & walked round upper reservoir. Water very low. Did not collect. Saw one or possibly two Painted Lady Butterflies on sunny slope of upper dam.