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173.) 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!