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356. 16.9.49, cont. Landenstown, KD., cont. Taken at 3. (by canal!) [Unly 2 mounted & these labelled 19.9.1949!] Cryptinids 5: none mtd. Opius caesus 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Dacnusa maculipes ♂︎, & D. elegantula ♀︎. None mtd. Chaenusa conjungens ♂︎, not mtd Chorebidia naiidum Hal. ♂︎, ant. 20 (or only 19 in 1 & 20 in other!) Proctos. 2: 1 mtd. = Trichopria ♀︎. 18th September 1949. A most perfect day, after a clear night with heavy dew. Slightly hazy, otherwise all sunny, with very gentle E. breeze off the sea. Drove, with Marcus Graham (& Daisy) to Newcastle station on The Murrough, Co. WI., & spent the day between that & The Breaches (where the tide flows in & out under the railway 2 miles N. of the station). Collected by sweeping along the edges of the drains & salt marsh, &c. Bumble Bees seen:- B. lapidarius ♂︎♂︎ frequent; B. muscorum very common & mostly ♂︎♂︎; B. lucorum 2♀︎♀︎ & some ♂︎♂︎; B. jonellus 1 large ☿ taken by Graham. [No B. agrorum? or other Aculeates seen, except Bethylus!] 357. 18.9.49, cont. The Murrough, Co. WI., cont. Swept in salt marsh, on edge of drain, & between Newcastle Station N. to the Breaches. Bethylus cephalotes 2♀︎♀︎ swept on edge of drain inside & parallel to railway in 2nd sucker! In 1st sucker, before lunch (nearer station). [13 mtd. from 1 & these labelled 15.12.1949] Hemiteles 2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 21 = Phygadeuon?, small dark ♀︎, ant. 18 = Omorga sp. 7♂︎♂︎, 6♀︎♀︎: 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, mtd. ant. all 28; fuscous stigma. Omorga? sp.? ♀︎, pale stigma, ant. 28. Apanteles salebrosus? ♂︎. Macrocentrus abdominalis 2♂︎♂︎, 1 dark, 1 pale; ant. 44 & 45. Alysia rufidens ♀︎, ant. 23 - Cf. with ♀︎ taken on N. Bull, DU. (1) 11.5.49. Aphaereta cephalotes ♀︎, ant. 18. Aphidius sp. ♂︎, ant. 17. Chalcids. 5: none mtd. In 2nd sucker (nearer The Breaches, after lunch!) [36 mtd. from 2 & these labelled 17.12.49.] Bethylus cephalotes 2♀︎♀︎ see above. Cryptinids 5♂︎♂︎: 4 mtd. = Phygadeuon sp. 3♂︎♂︎, ant. all 21. Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, black legs; ant. 19. Lissonota commixta ♂︎, ant. 43; radius curved almost as in L. parallelus. Glypta monocerus ♂︎, ant. 37. Pimpla brevicornis ♀︎: not mtd. Exochus nigripalpis Thoms. ♀︎, ant. 30; agrees well! A.W.S. 17.12.49.