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285.) 5.8.51, cont. Royal Canal, 60. KD. at Deey Lock where left car as usual, at 11.30 AM., & walked back to Mr. Mitchell's plantation (Collinstown Ho.) Collected in 4 areas as follows:- 1 = Tow path, &c. for 200 yard W. of plantation, 11.45-1.0 2 = Inside Mr Mitchell's plantation above canal, 1.40- [[strikethrough]] 2.40 [[/strikethrough]] 3.0 3 = Tow path (short stretch) E. of plantation 3.20-4.0. 4 = Wedge of 2nd (a few) & 3rd (many) field W. of Louisa Br. & between canal & Maysooth road; & E. side of 4th. field in lee of hedge (where very many insects swept) 4.15-5.15 Insects taken at 1. [42 mounted from 1 & these labelled on 2.3.52] Melanichneumon sanguinator ♀︎: not mtd. Centeterus ? ♂︎: not mtd. Phaeogenes fuscicornis W. ♀︎, ant. 23. Atractodes sp. 2 ♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Phygadenon sp. 2 ♀︎♀︎:1 ♀︎ mtd., ant. 18. Glypta spp. 3 ♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Chorineus cf. funebris 1, ant. 27. Promethes pulchellus ♂︎: not mtd. Porizonid ♂︎: not mtd. Bracon spp. 23 (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎) = B. communis 4 ♂︎♂︎ (ant. 28, 28, 29, 30); 3 ♀︎♀︎ (25, 27 & 28). B. anthracinus 2 ♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ (ant. 19). B. cf. pauciarticulatus m. ♂︎, ant. 17. B. cf. obscurator "a" ♂︎, ant. 21. B. sp. near obscurator? ♂︎, ant. 21. B. erraticus W. ♀︎, ant. 27; also a teneral ♂︎ (ant. 29) & a teneral ♀︎ (ant. 25) ? this sp. B. cf. exarator Marsh. 2 ♂︎♂︎, 1 ♀︎, ant. 33, 35 & 30: very like a robust form of last, Also cf. Thomson p. 1825. 286.) 5.8.51, cont. Royal Canal, KD., cont. Taken at 1, cont. Plenty of Bombus sylvarum ☿☿ B. derhamellus, &c. seen but (no sign of B pratorum!) Bracon coriaceus miki (? = longicollis W.) 2 large ♀︎♀︎, ant. 32 & 33. B. sp.? ♂︎, ant. 32, tergite 2 & 3 red, 3 smooth! B. sp.? ♂︎, ant. very long, 28; small slender sp., near "sp. 20"? Oncophanes ♀︎, ant. 22, with deformed wings! Teneral!! ant. 22 = O. minutus W. Dolopsidea indagator Hal. ant. 36. (Subsequent to mounting knocked off card by sleeve & damaged!) Hormius moniliatus ♂︎, ant. 24. Apanteles sp.? ♂︎, white wings Microplitis mediana dark var. or tuberculifera? ♂︎ Perilitus spathularis m.?? ♂︎, red head, ant. 21: might be ♂︎ of this! Narrow wings!! Opius communis 1 nice ♀︎, ant. 26. O. cf. levis 1♂︎, 1 very dark ♀︎, but ant. 26 & 25 respectively, usually less! O. cf. polita m. 1 minute ♂︎, ant. only 22, tergite 2 reddish! Dacnusa pubescens & areolaris? (1 ♂︎ of each): not mtd. D. cf. ganesa ♂︎, red tergite 2; ant. 33. Coelinius sp.? ♂︎, ant. 45. Praon objectum? 2♂︎♂︎ Aphidius spp. 7: 3 only mounted: = A. gregarius m.? ♀︎, ant. 19. A. granerius m.? ♀︎, ant. 17. A. dissolutus 1 small ♂︎, ant. 17. Proctos. 13: 2 mtd. = Chalcids 12: none mtd.