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10.8.51, cont.  Slade Brook, Co. DU.

Alt. ca. 1,000 feet.  Very little out except flies in spite of apparently optimum conditions.
[24 mounted & these labelled 18.2.1952.]

Dragonfly 1, Aeschna juncea seen.

Sawflies 4.  Tenthredo balteata 2♂︎♂︎ on bush. } Presumably part of a 2nd emergence.
Dolerus aeneus ♂︎ (often seen) } Presumably part of a 2nd emergence.
Athalia lineolata?  ♂︎.
Pteronidea curtispina  ♂︎. I think spp. Salix aurita.

Ichneumon? sp.?  2♂︎♂︎, red & black abd.; ant. both 35.
[I. sp. yellow & black ♂︎♂︎ seen.]
Idiolispa analis ♀︎, behaving like a Pompilid! Ant. 31. & 3 small ♂︎ Cryptinids, of which only a ♀︎ Pezomachus mtd.
Pazomachus sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Orthocentrus asper  ♂︎, ant. 23.
O. sp. n.? (♀︎?) with very elongate tergites & compressed anus: ant: 36.
Thersilochid triangularis  ♀︎, ant. 21
Th.? sp?  ♀︎, ant. 21.
Campoplegids 6: none mtd.
Plectiscus sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Bracon cf. obscurator  ♀︎, ant. 19, terebra almost as long as abdomen.
Apanteles sp. infirmus  1♀︎
A. cf. fulvipes group  1♀︎


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10.8.51, cont.  Slade Brook, DU., cont

Microgaster cf. globatus group  ♀︎.
[Macrocentrus marginator  ♀︎ ant. 47-seg.:  taken on Angelica by the upper reservoir in waterworks.]
Diospilus capito  11♀︎♀︎: none mtd.
Pentapleura pumilio  6♀︎♀︎: none mtd.
Aspilota fuscescens or near this:  1♂︎ (ant. 23), 3♀︎♀︎ (ant. 17, 18 & 18).
A. minutissima  1 small ♀︎, ant. 15;  rather pale legs.
A. sp.  ♂︎, no dimple, smooth prop., pale legs, ant. 22.
Dacnusa sp. areolaris  ♂︎: not mtd.
Monoctonus nervosus?  ♂︎, ant. 17.
Aphidius cf. avenae  14♀︎♀︎
Trioxys cf. auctus:  a minute ♂︎, ant. 13.
Proctos - 14:  only 3 mounted = Exallonyx longicornis  ♂︎
Chalcid  1
Aculeates.  Crabro dimidiatus & C. varius on birch, ♂︎♂︎
Melinus arvensis  ♂︎♂︎.

In Glenasmole, by upper reservoir I saw ♂︎♂︎ of Vespa norvegica & V. sylvestris;  all on Angelica flower-heads.


14 Clareville Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin.
11 Aug. 1951.  Phygadeuon sp. ♀︎, ant. 19: taken on window in house.
13 Aug. 1951.  Eubadizon extensor ♀︎ taken at light in sitting room.

Transcription Notes:
♂♀☿ Many words appear to be scientific names of insects