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21.7.50, cont.  Buckroney, WI., cont.

Phaeogenids  2♂︎♂︎ = Dicaelotus cf. pumilus, ant. 27 & 28.
Cryptinids:  
Stylocryptus sp.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 24.
Atractodes? sp.  1♂︎, 1, ant. 27 & 23.
Lissonota parallela  ♂︎, ant. 43.
L. errabunda?  ♂︎, ant. 31.
Banchus volutatorius  ♀︎, ant. 54, on flowers of Carduus arvensis on dunes S. of Mizen Head.
Homocidus nitritarsis  ♀︎, small.
Campoplegids  9 (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎):  mostly on spurge:  ? all 1 species.
Cremastus geminus  2♀︎♀︎.
Bracon erythrostictus  ♂︎, ant. 40.
B. cf. sphaerocephalus m.  ♂︎, ant 34, darker legs.
Chelonus annulatus (N.) Th. 4 (= 3♂︎♂︎, ant. 32, 33 & 33;  1♀︎, ant. 32) fide M.W.R.G. 1951
Apanteles cf. triangulator  ♂︎
Euphorus pallipes  ♂︎, ant. 23, but temples & lateal lobes of mesonotum smooth & polished.
Dacnusa vitripennis m.  ♂︎, ant. 29:  swept on NW. edge of lagoon.
Chalcids  3 = 
Sawfly - Selandria flavens  ♂︎, near stream.
Coccinellid beetle = Coccinella 13-punctata
Bug.  Stenocephalus agilis in penultimate instar!  On spurge.
Diptera 3 = Catabomba pyrastri ♀︎;


22nd July '50
Spathius exarator  ♂︎, ant. 32:  taken in motor house, 14 Clareville Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin.


174.)

25th July 1950. 

A fine day spoiled, as usual, by a jam & rain-storm which lasted from 12.30 noon till after 1 P.M.  Left home at 11.30 & drove to Athdown & then back along Military Road to almost the highest point S. of Kilbride Camp where left car at 12.15 & walked up to the cairn on top of Seefin, alt. just over 2,000 feet.  Arrived at cairn just as the rain reached us & stayed there till it passed, when returned to car for lunch.  Later, as weather once more very fine - sunny & cloudy, returned to Athdown & collected for 1 1/2 hours, took aft. tea & returned home at 5.20 P.M.  Collected by sweeping birch, &c., & between bushes, below the Military Road & between it & the lower road, almost 300 yards W. of where the roads meet;  but the "long-tails" & Coleoptera were taken on the stumps of the great old beech trees which formerly lined the N. side of the Military Road for 1/4 mile above its junction with the main road.  These beech trees, from 3 to 4 feet in diam. were cut down some years ago & are now nearly too far gone to be any use as food for Coleoptera but are still evidently inhabited by Sinodendron, & Strangalia quadrifasciata, while small Crabros nest in the old holes!  Virtually no hymenoptera taken by sweeping the birch, &c., & those few taken were under the bushes for the most part.  Saw large patch of Cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccus in swamp!