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330.) 28.9.51, cont. Grand Canal, Landenstown, Co. KD., cont. Taken at 1 (edge of canal!): some off alder bushes! [35 mtd. from 1 & these labelled 13.1.1954.] Cryptinids 23, mostly Hemiteles spp.: 6 only mounted = Hemiteles sp. ♀︎, ant. 20. Atractodes sp. 2♀︎♀︎ ant. 20. Pezomachus black sp. ♀︎, ant. 20. Pez. red sp. ♀︎, ant. 21. Microcryptus graminicola ♀︎, ant. 30. Homocidus biguttatus, small ♀︎, ant. 24. Promethes sulcator ♀︎, ant. 24. H. signatus ♂︎, ant. 22. Stenomacrus palustris ♀︎, ant. 24 & St. palustris? ♂︎, ant. 25. Mesochorus sp. 4♂︎♂︎: 1 only mtd. ant. 29. Helictes sp. 4♂︎♂︎. [[strikethrough]] Gen. et sp. near last. [[/strikethrough]] 1 small ♂︎ = Helictes sp. ♂︎, ant. 26. Opius caesus 19 - mostly ♀︎♀︎ & O. irregularis 2♀︎♀︎: none mtd. Pentapleura pumilio 1♀︎ & P. angustula 2♀︎♀︎: none mtd. Phaenocarpa luteipes Stelfox ♂︎, ant. 24. topotype! Ph. ruficeps, small ♀︎, ant. 24. Aspilota (Synaldis) funiculicoinis ♀︎, ant. 18. Dacnusa areolaris, maculipes, laevipectus, pubescens & confinis } none mtd. D. aphanta & D. cyclops 2. } none mtd. D. elegantula 6. D. diremta 1♀︎. } none mtd. D. temula Hal. a very nice ♀︎, ant. 25. D. cf. lonicerae ♂︎?, ant. 27. D. sp. (? ovalis group) ♂︎, ant. 32. D. cf. areolaris, very small, dark, ♀︎, ant. 20. 331.) 28.9.51, cont. Landenstown, KD., cont. Taken at 1, cont. Dacnusa (Gyrocampa) affinis 9: mostly ♀︎♀︎: none mtd. D. (G.) nigriscaposa 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 25 & 26. D. (G.) uliginosa 1 small ♀︎, ant. only 21. D. (G.) siniffa ♂︎, ant. 28. Chaenusa conjungens 1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 24 & 21 respectively: rather small exx. Ephedrus validus ♀︎, not mtd. Eph. plagiator 1 large ♀︎, ant. 11. Praon abjectum 1♂︎: not mtd. Aphidius spp. 10: 2 small ♀︎♀︎ only mounted, which look very much alike & both have 13-seg. ant., but one has no trace of a transverse cubital vein & the other seems to have it, though somewhat teneral, the first runs to polygoni Marsh. & the latter to exiguus Hal. Proctos 14: 4 only mtd. = Cynipids 2: not mtd. Beetle 1 = Hemipteron 1, minute; = Orius laevigatus Fieber, ♂︎, fide H.S. Daltry, 1959 & A.M. Massee, 1964. New to Ireland. Taken at 2 (mainly off or around alders along parallel drain!) [18 mounted from 2 & these labelled 17.1.1954.] Cryptinids 10, including 2 all red Pezomachus ♀︎♀︎ & 1 Cratocryptus? ♂︎ with white face - ant. 26: the latter only mounted = Homocidus biguttatus ♂︎ & ♀︎, small, ant. 25 & 24. H. pallipes ♂︎, ant. 23. Stenomacrus ventralis 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, all brightly coloured! None mtd. Orthocentrus radialis ♀︎, ant. 29, but stigma quite dark! Mesoleius variegatus Jurine? ♀︎, ant. 30. [[image]] [[caption]] clypeus at apex [[/caption]]