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125.) 14th June 1950. A very fine cool day, with cloud & hot sun & some slight showers in afternoon. Wind N. & fresh, with strong draught up the gorge of the Upper Dodder River, Glenasmole, Co. DU. Left home at 10 AM. & drove to Castle Kelly & left car at Cobb's Lodge, 1 mile above the head of upper reservoir in Glenasmole, walked across to R. Dodder & collected by sweeping lime, beech, birch, Salix aurita, Mt. Ash, &c. from ca. 900 to 1400 ft alt. (where the last fork on the river occurs!); then walked back to car by the turf-cutter's road. Gorge of the Upper Dodder, Glenasmole, Co. DU. 11 AM. till 4.0 P.M. [1 labelled 25.10.51: 8 labelled 4/4/55: 48 labelled 29.11.1960!] Platylabus dolorosus ♂︎, ant. 35. Cratichneumon sp. ♂︎, not mtd. Cryptinids 4 small ♂︎♂︎: none mtd. Glypta cf. filicornis Thm. ♀︎, ant. 34. G. elongata ♂︎, not mtd. Polysphincta tuberosa, ♂︎, ant. 25. Bassus varicoxa ♂︎, ant. 18; small. Promethes cognatus ♂︎, ant. 23. Homocidus obscuripes ♂︎. H. biguttatus 2♂︎♂︎: ant. 24 & 25. 126.) 14.6.50, cont. Upper Dodder, Co. DU., cont. Homocidus signatus ♂︎, ant. 22. H. pallipes, a dark ♂︎, ant. 22. H. nigriventris, ant. 22. Mesoleius sp. ♂︎, ant. 36. Stenomacrus ventralis 1♀︎ & 6 other examples. St. laricis 3♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. all 28. St. palustris? ♂︎, ant. 27 St. sp.? ant. 23, large pale stigma! Orthocentrus radialis ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. both 28. ♂︎ damaged when labelling! A.W.S. Campoplegids 3: Gen. et sp.?, ♀︎, short terebra, ant. 35 = Hemiphanes gravator ♂︎, ant. 23. Helictes ♂︎ Bracon sp. near centaureae-nigrae ♀︎, ant. 25, but head small & orbits not reddish B. sp.? smallish ♂︎, ant. 25; might be ♂︎ of last, but legs paler, &c. B. fulvipes ♂︎, ant. 36. Rogas 5:- ♂︎ circumscriptus group. Very slender all red legs, ant. 39; pale, narrow stigma, &c. Also 3♂︎♂︎ (ant. 37, 38, 38) & 1♀︎ (ant. 39), very similar to above ♂︎. A.W.S. 1960. Ascogaster rufipes Latr. ♀︎, ant. 35. Apanteles cf. fraternus? 3♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: but ♂︎ wings not lcateous! Microgaster globatus √ ♂︎ Microctonus cf. cultus ♀︎, ant. 23. Phaenocarpa ruficeps ♂︎: not mtd. Ph. conspurcator ♀︎: not mtd.