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13. 1839 Haliday's diary (notes from) cont. [July: cont. from p. 12 opposite ->] 6-8 [July 1839.] [Clifden, Hollywood! AWS.] Alysia florimela ♀︎ {Found in box 18 by AWS. July 1950} [Carded flat with loc. & date AWS. July 1950] Platygaster similis P. scutellari sed BS fere tot nigr. P. laeodice Blacus longipennis Macrogaster albipennis nobis ♀︎ 8-11. Gorytes mystaceus Ismarus exaratus ♀︎ Pygostolus sticticus 2 freshly disclosed X Eulophus ♂︎ S brev Be6cum clava coarct B. rami 3 Platygaster affinis P. mamertes sed B s ruf. Cl fusc. ⊖δ micro crap.'r P. cochleatus 16. Platyg. catillus ♂︎ 17. Orthocentrus U subpetiol.+ X. Opius Shore. π2 subt'e squam, sulco subobselito vise [?] rugul. δ apert. Co Ca ruf. [I found this specimen in box & labelled beneath the card. It is a specimen of my decoratus n. p. taken at Curracloe, WX. on (2) 16.7.1937. A.W.S. 22.3.1941] [17 July 1839, cont.] Emphytus Mellinus arvensis Proctotrupes gravidator ♂︎ 20. Phygadeuon 4-spinus ♀︎ Figites scutellaris ♀︎ sat fr. in sterc. bov. 23-26 Platygaster - copiose flowers of Cow parsnip, &c. Alysia picinervis super fimo bovino. Spalangia nigra freq. in fimo bovino 30. Athalia lugens Chelonus ♂︎ Uw perfor't. X Exochus femoralis? ♀︎ S cruβ'm. ruf. C'3-W nigr. B neo craβ. u atten e transo subtus @ 5 picruf. Θ ante A subforod Θ snue acutiformo U β atten Θ'3 cancell. dorso arus t5, media lucari. A5 fusc. Ac2. [Several of above words are doubtful but I have copied them as well as I can from my own original MS. notes. A.W.S. 22.1.1949.] X Opius abnormis [This specimen found by me in box of Haliday Coll. A.W.S.] [cont. on p.14 overleaf!] 12. 1838. Haliday's diary (notes from) cont. [October: continued from p.11 overleaf ->] Oct. 20. Proctotrupes ater, ligatus, pallipes, aculeator Belyta maculata, 2 or 3 ♀︎ Alomyia ovator Diapria [End of 1838!] 1839. April 5th Ceraphron ♀︎ Spilomicrus Belyta May 6th Exochus talpa Euphorus pallidistigma many Aphidii. Ephedrus Ceraphron May 8th [No Hymenoptera!] May 30. Leiophron edentatus Microgaster fulvipes Athalia sat. fr. [No locality is mentioned for any of the above until we come to 30th, when one insect is recorded from "Shore", so I just assume "shore" was at Holywood, Co. Down. AWS.] June 3. Bracon June 13. Ceraphron flavicornis Rogas testaceus Alysia manducator, ruficeps Centistes lucidator Euphorus fulvipes July 2. Platygaster ⊖𝛿 macrone testacea ♀︎ S. ruf. Be fusc. 4e crassa. Shore. Pl. diplanata nitid m. Do. Pteromalus Diapria parvula Ceraphron ♂︎ ⊖𝛿 1-sulc. B+ serrat. Platygaster Alysia incongrua, tabida Encyrtus Ceraphron ♂︎ subtus ferrug. Perilitus micropterus freq. Clinocentrus Inostemma boscii sat. fr. Opius rufipes, cingulatus, pygmaeator. Chelonus Atractodes [Cont. on p.13 opposite!]
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