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3rd June 1950.  Saturday. 

Another very fine & very hot day, after a misty night & morning.  In forenoon mounted insects, &c.  Called for at 2 P.M. by A. A. Lisney & family & driven in his car to Hod Hill, north of Blandford, & rising very steeply above the R. Stour, Dorset. 

Wooded on its lower slopes Hod Hill exhibits the chalk flora on its bare upper slopes much better than any of the Dorset downs we have yet seen.  The plants seen here include Carex clandestina in profusion, Campanula glomerata, Ornithopus, Hippocrepis comosa, Cephalanthera grandilflora? (on the open steep chalk slope above the wood, as well as in the darkest shade of the beech wood talons), Orchis fuchsii & another spotted Orchid with less equally lobed labellum, more [[image]] than [[image]].

Very few hymenoptera to be seen either down or in the wood - blazing sun all the (?) were there.

Hod Hill (W. & S. slope), Dorset

Bombus lapidarius & Psithyrus rupestris  ♀︎♀︎ seen.
Andrena wilkella?  ♀︎♀︎: 1 mounted!
Sphecodes  2 seen, one very small.
Nomada goodeniana  ♀︎.


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3.6.50, cont.  Hod Hill, Dorset, cont.

Dragonfly:  teneral! Very common on down.
Calopteryx virgo  ♂︎ seen.
Skipper Butterfly (3) seen = tages, malvae, & sylvanus.
Diptera 3 =
Beetle (green) = 
Ichs &c.  red ♀︎, Vol.1 found dead = Hoplismenus perniciosus ♀︎ ant. 36.
Pezomachus gonatopinus ♀︎, ant. 21.
Cteniscid 1 = Anisoctenion rubriginosus Grav. ant. 28 - fide G.J. Kerrich, 1951. 
Thersilochid  1♂︎, ant. 22 = 
Campoplex ♀︎, red & black; ant. 52. 
Bracon spp. 10, including a curious ♂︎ with semi-testaceous head, thorax & abdomen & very curious tergite 1:  this last labelled 12.10.50 (ant. 24) & rem. to general collection.
B. cf. brachycerus Thoms.  ♀︎, ant. 24.  Same as ♀︎ taken at Clova, A. Scotland on 22.6.47.
Bracon stabilis  ♀︎, ant. 22.
Bracon cf. nitidus miki MS., ant. 22.
B. cf. nigrifemur miki MS.  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 22, both.  Also 3 small ♂︎, ant. 22, 24 & 26, possible the ♂︎♂︎ of this species.
Hormius moniliatus  1 very red ♀︎; ant. 22.  This is larger, with larger wings, more polished & more transverse head, &c., than any Irish specimens I have seen.  Put in coll.!
Rogas rugulosus, large ♂︎, seen on leaf of ash & captured;  ant. 60.  Put in coll.!
Ascogaster instabilis  ♂︎, ant. 34, seen to fly to leaf of ash & hide underneath.
Apanteles 4 = A. cf. pallipes  2♀︎♀︎;  A. fraternus?  ♂︎;  & A. near fraternus?  ♀︎.
Opius cf. instabilis?  ♀︎ (damaged abdomen!), ant. 24.
Aspilota 3 = A. cf. atra  large ♀︎, ant. 24, pale!
A. cv. crassinervis miki  1 possible ♀︎, ant. 21 - near Orthostigma!
A. near insidiatrix Marshall, ant. 17:  cf. ♀︎ from Gareloch, DN. 1938.