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10.)

25th Sept 1949. 

A very hot, close day, after very wet, windless, night, with some very hot sunbursts.  Ground vegetation very wet & no sweeping possible before midday.

Left home about 10.30 & drove to Grand Canal, 1/4 mile E. of Landenstown House, Co. KD., W. of Sallins.

Collected in two areas: —
1 = along S. side of canal, opposite plantation; including some insects taken off Alder along drains parallel to canal & before sweeping edge of canal was possible  11.30 till 1.15 P.M.
2 = stubble fields (oats & barley) S. of plantation & road  2 till 3 P.M.
3 = edge of canal, same as 1 but 3 till 4 P.M.

Insects taken at 1. 
[26 mtd. & these labelled 16.11.49!]

Hemiteles spp. 2♀︎♀︎, one on alder (Graham) mounted & = H. cf. sordipes or near this.  Ant. 23.  Head, mesonotus, pleura & tergites 1 to 3 very minutely sculptured;  terebra as long as abd. - Also of a small dark form of H. inimical!
Cratocryptus?  ♂︎, white face, ant. 25 = 
Orthocentrus radialis  ♀︎: not mtd.
Campoplegids 3, Meloboris ♂︎, red coxae, & 2♀︎♀︎ of other genera.  None mtd.
Ademon decrescens  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Opius caesus  2: not mtd.
Phaenocarpa luteipies sp. n. ♀︎, ant. 22.  Type!  cf. 2♂︎♂︎ taken here on 30/8 & 27/9.1939.  Sp. near nina Hal. & succicola Thoms.
Dacnusa pubescens, areolaris &c.  3 only: none mtd.


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25.9.49, cont.  Landenstown, KD., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Dacnusa (Gyrocampa) affinis  ♀︎, ant. 22.
D. esbelta  ♀︎, ant. 30.
D. nigroscaposa m.  ♀︎, ant. 22/23;  very nice specimen.
D. uliginosa  ♂︎ & ♀︎;  ant. 27 & 22 - small specimens.
Chaenusa conjungens  5♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Aphidius renominatus?  ♀︎, ant. 15.
A. dissolutus Hal.  ♂︎;  ant. bitten off.
Prctos  7: 4 mtd.
Chalcids  4: 2 mtd. including one Mymarid ♂︎ = 
Cynipids  2: not mtd.
Hemiptera  2 spp. on Alder = Triolus luridus (greenish form!) & Pantilius tunicatus, some reddish, some greenish.

Water-beetle = Hydroporus planus?  fide E.O'M. & 4 other beetles
Parnus prolifericornus
Typhaea fumata
Ceuthorrynchus contractus
Cassida equestris 
fide E.O'M.

Dipteron  1 = 


Taken at 2.
[33 mtd. from 2 & these labelled 18.11.49.]

Hemiteles spp. near gracilis  6: none mtd.
Helictes sp.  ♂︎, ant. 27.
Mesochorus sp.  ♀︎ not mtd.
Campoplegid  1♀︎: not mtd.

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