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117.)

3.6.50, cont.  Hod Hill, Dorset, cont.

Aphidius ervi large ♀︎, ant. 19.
A. renominatus small ♀︎, ant 14/15 = A. cirsii Hal.
Proctos. 4 (including 3 minute Platygasterinids?)
Chalcids 2.
Cynipids 2.


4th June 1950. 

Another perfect day with  blazing sun from dawn to dusk & fresh SW. breeze.  

Picked up with car by A.A. Lisney & family at 10.15 AM. & driven via Wareham & Corfe Caitle to Studland where spent almost the entire day between the sea & the Lake known as Little Sea - on the dunes, sandy ridges & swampy slacks - the drier filled with Drosera rotundifolia & D. intermedia (= longifolia) & the wetter full of water in which much Hypericum elodes.  Sweeping produced practically no small Hymenoptera & Aculeates very scarce except in one or two spots.  Much helped by Lisney whose black, light, not much more efficious 


118.)

4.6.1950, cont.  Studland, Dorset, cont.

in catching the smaller & extremely lively species.

At 4.30 drove on towards the ferry across mouth of Poole Harbour & stopped at the last bend in the road - the reported locality for Odynerus herrichi (= basalis) - but none seen & no doubt too early as Dr. C.D. Day's earliest date of capture is 19th June.  Walked across moor from road to shore of Brand's Bay, Poole Harbour & tried sweeping salt-marsh, & looking for Aculeates along the sandy 10 ft. "cliffs", but very little to be got.

Sand-dunes & sand-flats between the sea (Studland Bay) & "Little Sea" lake 1/4 to 3/4 mile N. of road to beach just north of the Knoll House Hotel.

Bethylus fuscicornis  1 small ♀︎:  O.W.R. agrees!
Gonatopus sepsoides Ww. fide O.W.R.  ♀︎, running on sand (AAL.)
Lasius niger - none kept, Formica fusca - none kept, Myrmica ruginodis  2☿☿ mounted, & M. scabrinodis examined.
Tapinoma erraticum  ☿☿ - 3 mounted, swept on heather, &c., near Brand's Bay.
Velvet Ant  ♀︎ running on sandy bank just S. of eastern end of Little Sea lake = Mutilla europea!
Tachysphex unicolor √ common:  7 mounted!