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119.)

4.6.50, cont.  Studland, Dorset, cont.

Sphex sabulosa } both frequent! ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ of former, mostly ♀︎♀︎ of latter.
S. hirsuta } both frequent!  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ of former, mostly ♀︎♀︎ of latter.
Pompilus viatica  4♀︎♀︎.
P. [[strikethrough]] gibbus? [[strikethrough]]  ♀︎.
P. unguicularis?  fide M.W.R. de V. Graham.
P. rufipes  3♂︎♂︎ on dunes & at Brand's Bay.
P. plumbeus  1♂︎ on dunes.
Evagethes bicolor  ♀︎.
Odyneus pictus √ ♂︎ at Brand's Bay.
Halictus prasinus  ♀︎ on heath near Brand's Bay fide MWR de V. Graham.
Hedychridium ardens common on dunes.
Tenthredo  ♀︎ taken by A.A.L. in one of the slacks where birch & Salix repens grew.
Dolerus asper Zadd.  ♀︎ swept in rushy slack:  fide MWR Graham.
Selandria stramineipes on Bracken at Brand's Bay.

Ichneumon cf. gracilicornis small, melanic var.?  ♂︎ swept near birch in slack.
Catoglyptus crassipes Holmgr. in car near Wareham  ♂︎, ant. 31.
Paniscus gracilipes Th.?  ♀︎ at birth in one of the slacks;  ant. 44.
Coleoptera 7.  Hyperaspis reppensis Herbst. (fide E.O'M.);  Coccinella XI-punctata L. (fide E.O'M.)

Grasshoppers  2.
Hemipteron  1.


120.)

4.6.50, cont.  Studland, Dorset, cont.

In sucker!

Cryptinid  ♂︎, ant. 23 = 
Glypta elongator?  ♂︎, ant. 36;  small & dark!
Bracon cf. epitriptus?  ♀︎.
Bracon "concolor Thomson"  ♀︎ = opacus miki;  ant. 20.
[Colastes braconius  ♂︎, ant. 23, very stiff & ? taken on previous day.]
Perilitus aethiops?  2♂︎♂︎;  ant. both 27.
Chalcid  1.
Procto.  1.
Bethylus fuscicornis (?♀︎) See p. 118 antea!


5th June 1950.

Crabro leucostomoides Richards  ♀︎ in garden of Bridge Hotel, Dorchester.

Spent day packing & visiting & left for home early on morning of 6th.  Caught "Pines Express" at Poole for Liverpool, where arrived about 5.30 P.M.  Got on board B. & I. about 9 & home in Dublin for breakfast.  Very hot!  +90°F in Liverpool!


The following insects given me while in Dorset or soon afterwards!

Witchampton, Dorset.  P. Harwood 31.5.1950.
Vespa crabro  2♀︎♀︎.
Macrophya rufipes  2♂︎♂︎, 5♀︎♀︎.
Dolerus puncticollis  ♀︎.
Beetles  4 = 

Railway bank, Radipole, Weymouth, Dorset:  on Parsnip.
Crabro dives  ♂︎, 15.1.1949.  G.M. Spooner;  2♀︎♀︎, 8.8.1949 C.D. Day

Weymouth, Dorset.
Nomada fucata P2  1♂︎, 1♀︎.  7.7.195.  G.M. Spooner.