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295.) 14th August 1951. A fine day with gentle W. breeze. In afternoon drove to Manor Kilbride, Co. Wicklow & collected by sweeping in two areas of the triangle between upper & lower & cross roads just E. of the lodge & entrance to the estate, as on many previous occasions. Small hymenoptera very plentiful & most swept under trees or just outside same. 1 = under trees along lower road from middle to S.W. Corner. 2 = ditto but at SE. corner & along drain by cross road. Manor Kilbride, Co. Wicklow Taken at 1. [16 mounted from 1 & these labelled 17.2.1952.] Dryinids 2♂︎♂︎, one with more-red legs than the other! Neither mtd. Epitomus pygmaeus 3: not mtd. Cryptinids 2. Hemiteles ♂︎, & Atractodes ♀︎: neither mtd. Promethes pulchellus? ♂︎: not mtd. Campoplegids 4: none mtd. Plectiscids 2: 1 mtd. = Helictes cf. pilicornis Thoms., ant. 30 (♂︎?). Microplitis mediator ♂︎, red antennae! Apanteles falcatus ♀︎: not mtd. Meteorus micropterus 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. 296. 14.8.51, cont. Manor Kilbride, WI., cont. Taken at 1, cont. Blacus ruficornis ♀︎: not mtd. B. paganus? 1♂︎, 1♀︎, large! Ant. 19 & 17 respectively. Macrocentrus infirmus ♂︎, ant. 36. Opius caesus 1 & 3 others: only 1 mtd. = O. levis Wesm. ♂︎, ant. 22: a very dark, clearly coloured example with slight groove where dimple ought to be! Pentapleura angustula 1♀︎, & P. pumilio 2♀︎♀︎: none mtd. Aphanta tenuicornis 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd. Orthostigma sp. 3♂︎♂︎: none mtd. Aspilota spp. ca. 25, including A. maculipes Hal. 2♂︎♂︎ & other common spp., but none seen of interest. Only 1 mtd. = A. cf. cynipidis? possibly a large ♂︎ of this! Ant. 25. A. (Synaldis) spp. 5♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: none mtd. Dacnusa areolaris, maculipes, & group 8: none mtd. D. cyclops 1♀︎ not mtd. D. aphanta? ♀︎, ant. 28. D. (Gyrocampa) affinis 3♀︎♀︎: 1♀︎ mtd. ant. 22. Chaenusa conjungens 1 dark ♀︎: ant. 20. Aphidius spp. 5: 1 mtd. = A. pterocommae ♀︎, ant. 19: agrees well! Proctos, in abundance ca. 35 in sucker: 6 mounted = Chalcids 12 } none mtd. Cynipids 2 } none mtd.