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111.)

1.6.50, cont.  Garden behind Bridge Hotel, Dorchester.
5 till 5.30 PM

Osmia
Psenulus atratus F. (= pallipes Saunders) 1♀︎.
Pemphredon lugubris  ♂︎.
P. shuckardi ♂︎.
Chrysis cyanea


2nd June 1950. 

Another lovely day, with SE wind!  Misty all night & morning & mist blowing off the sea along coast all day, especially so at Weymouth, but nearly all sunny on the Isle of Portland.  Left Dorchester by 9.40 bus for Weymouth & went on to The Bill by 11.5 bus from there & spent day walking back to Portland along West Cliffs.  Caught bus at Portland at 4.30 & from Weymouth at 5.10 PM

Isle of Portland, Dorset

Collected in cliffs just N. of the point of The Bill of Portland & the modern Lighthouse & for a mile & a half from The Bill along top of the west cliffs then walked to head of steep path down to sea near  Clay Hope & so by path back to Portland station


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2-6-50, cont.  Isle of Portland, cont.

Collected only a very few insects below the cliffs near Clay Hope & nearly all along first mile of west cliffs from The Bill.

In killing bottle!

Andrena carbonaria  4♀︎♀︎ from by colony on low cliffs just N. of The Bill;  worn ♂︎♂︎ probably seen.
A. flavipes  3♂︎♂︎; with last.
A. spreta  ♀︎ (√ AWS. 8.3.51)
Halictus albipes  ♀︎. 
H. villosulus  2♀︎♀︎.
H. smeathmanellus vera!  2♀︎♀︎.
Sphecodes [[strikethrough]] dimidiatus [[/strikethrough]] 1♀︎ = pincticeps?  M.W.R. de V. Graham.
Osmia aurulenta  ♂︎♂︎ in great abundance (worn) & a few ♀︎♀︎ below cliffs:  none taken.
Odynerus pictus  ♂︎, others seen.
Chrysis ignita  ♂︎, below cliffs:  others seen.
Lasius alienus?  very small ☿☿ along W. cliffs:  3☿☿ mounted.
Leptothorax tuberum √  1☿ swept near sea beyond cliffs.
Sawflies 2 = Arge cyano-crocea  ♂︎ below cliffs;  & Cladius pectinicornis?  ♀︎.
Exephanes?  ♀︎ in Spurge below cliffs:  not seen when labelling!
Cryptus laborator Thunb. (= fulvipes)  2♂︎♂︎ & 3♀︎♀︎ frequent on edge of cliffs & 2 others ♂︎♂︎ & 1♀︎ (3 spp.)
Gen. et sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 25 = 

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