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121.) 11 June 1950. A very fine day, like all those during last week! Very hot sun, with strong cool E.N.E. wind. Drove to Killoughter, on The Murrough, Co. WI.; arriving there at 11 AM. & left for home at 5.0 P.M. & home at 6 0. Very few insects on the beach, but plenty in the reed beds at Grange Lane, 1 mile N. of the old Killoughter railway station. Filled two suckers, the first (1) from the beach & sand-flat outside the railway from Killoughter to Grange lane; & (2) in the marsh & reed-beds S. of Grange lane. The Murrough, N. of Killoughter, for one mile, Co. WI. = (1) 11.6.50 (outside railway: beach) [1 labelled 25.10.1951. 24 labelled 22.11.1960.] Sphex lutaria Pompilus plumbeus Ceropales maculatus Bombus muscorum 1 worn ♀︎ seen B. lapidarius 1♀︎ seen Orthoptera sp. 1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎ ? parasitic on Rhodites on Rosa spinosissima. 2♂︎, ant. 20, 1♀︎, ant. 17, 2♀︎, ant. 18, mtd. Exolytus? or Atractodes? ♂︎, ant. 24 = Canidia sp. ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎: 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 19 & 20. 122.) 11.6.50, cont. Killoughter, The Murrough, WI., cont. Taken at 1, cont. Mesochorus sp. 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 24 & 28. Bracon cf. exilis miki ♀︎, ant. 24, but antennae seem a bit short? Ascogaster instabilis ♂︎, ant. 33. Apanteles cf. placidus? ♂︎, white wings. Opius sp. Runs to albipalpis m. 1 minute ♀︎; ant. 23: but ant. black at base, &c. Alysia manducator ♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota rubripes miki 1 minute ♀︎, ant. 15. Dacnusa vitripennis m. 1♂︎, ant. 31. Trioxys? sp. 1♂︎, ant. 13, dark legs. Aphidius cf. ervi ♂︎, large, ant. 23. A. cf. arundinis ♂︎, small, ant. 15. Cynipids 2 = Rhodytes? 1 mtd. Chalcids abundant (15 in sucker!): 4 mtd. = Proctos 2 = Proctotrupes gravidator small ♂︎, only mtd. Diptera: some Tachinids taken on edge Daisy for Dr. C.D. Day of Dorchester. These included 4 exx. of a black species - Perichaeta unicolor Fall. - fide Day in lett. 17.6.50 - which he says is a coastal species & rare in England except in S.W. (Dorset (1), Cornwall (frequent), &c.)
