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16.)

28th Sept. 1949. 

Another perfect day after a misty morning.  Drove to Buckroney, Brittas Bay, WI., with J.P. Brunker & his niece Nora Brunker.

Left home 10:40 arrived Buckroney about noon & took our lunch to coast across the dune. 

Swept dune before & after lunch, as well as scrub & edge of lagoon (quite dry!), but Hymenoptera almost entirely absent.  Just before leaving tried the edge of the marsh (7 insects taken here labelled "Buckroney M.") W. of road & found it equally unprofitable.  Left for home at 4:15 & reached Dunran about 5 P.M. when the old car suddenly "konked", the drive from engine to half-time shaft having broken down due to perishing of fiber cog-wheel in gearing of same.

Subsequently towed to McCormick's garage at Newtown mountkennedy & came home by bus at 7:55.  Home 9:10 P.M.

Insects swept on dunes & around lagoon, Buckroney, Co. WI.

Bombus agrorum & lapidarius (?♂︎) the only aculeates seen except ants (Lasius niger & Myr. ruginodis).
Hemiptera.  Ischnodemus sabuleti common on outer edge of dunes.  Therpha hyoscyami one adult;  & 3 other spp.

[36 specimens mounted & these labelled 31.10.49!]


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28.9.49, cont.  Buckroney, WI., cont.

Butterflies seen in dunes
Admiral (1), Painted Lady (1), Tortoiseshell (1), Grayling (1 quite fresh & seems very late for this species but closely examined & no doubt this specimen.  No Blues seen by me!

Hemiteles sp.  ♂︎ (large anal sharpers!), ant. 23.
Stenomacrus sp. near arcuatus m.  ♀︎, ant. 22;  very small sp.
Tryphonid ♂︎ = Mesoleius? cf. scapularis?  red abdomen, matt;  ant. 30.
Leptopygus [[strikethrough]] harpurus? [[/strikethrough]]  ♀︎, long terebra!  Ant. 29.
Meloboris sp.  2♂︎♂︎;  ant. 37 & 38.
Omorga?  2 spp.  2♀︎♀︎;  ant. 32 & 34.
Cymodusa leucocera  ♂︎;  ant. 35.
Helictes sp.  ♂︎;  ant. 28.
Apanteles sp.  ♂︎, very shite wings.
Ap. cf. fraternus  ♂︎, whitish wings.
Sigalphus  tergite 3 entirely aciculate therefore cf. obscurellus though (♂︎?) very small & ant. only 21.
Perilitus cf. cerealium Th.  ♀︎, amall, ant. 20.
Opius irregularis  ♀︎, tergite 2 almost entirely micro-aciculate;  ant. 24.
Aspilota cf. fuscescens  2♂︎♂︎, rather dark legs, ant. 20 & 21.
A. sp.  ♀︎, no dimple, black, ant. 17.
Dacnusa (Liposcia) discolor  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Aphidius cf. granarius?  1♂︎, black legs, ant. 20.
Proctos 3, including Paracodrus apterogynus  2♀︎♀︎ swept off Marram Grass, &c., just after leaving car & within 100 yards of road & 300 yards NE. of where it crosses outlet of marsh.  (3rd not mounted!).
Chalcids  4: all same sp. & mtd. on same card.
Beetles  4 = Chilochoris bipustulatus & Olibrus aeneus.

In Marsh 3 sweeps produced Pezomachus ♀︎, Aphidius ♂︎ & 5 Proctos