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344. 12th - 16th Oct. 1951. Lovely weather & some days such as 16th absolutely perfect with very hot sun. Temperature in dining room, 14 Clareville Rd., at 6 P.M. between 67 & 68F. although windows front & back room had been open all day. In afternoon while cutting front privet hedge saw a ♀︎ Pimpla alight on a twig & caught it with my fingers; it proved to be P. depositer. Först., ant. 21-segmented. 17th- 18th Oct: entirely dull & much cooler, with glass falling all 18th but no rain. 19th Oct. 1951. A fine sunny, but cool & with strong S.W. breeze: not an insect day & very very different from 16th. Went by bus to Dollymount & on to the North Bull, where arrived about 11.15. Walked along the salt-marsh to Lady Anne's Bank where had lunch at 1 P.M. & back by the strand & sandy flat outside golf links. Home 4.30 P.M. Swept a little in 3 areas, but few insects about except Diptera (Daddy Longlegs prevailing at 2!). 1 = Salt-marsh by path for 1/2 mile E. of old coast guard st. 2 = Sandflat where alder trees grow near Lady Annes Bank. 3 = Sandflat 1/4 mile E. of the Bull Wall & S. of golf links 345. 19.10.51, cont. North Bull, Co. DU. Insects taken at 1. [17 mounted from 1 & these labelled 11.12.1951.] Pimpla brevicornis ♀︎, ant. 22. Apanteles viminetorum ♀︎ (= fuliginosus W. fida Wilkinson): very nice specimen. This ♀︎ is quite unlike one named & sent me by Wilkinson as a neo-paratype! AWS. 1951. Aspilota sp.? ♀︎, taken in 1st sweep! Near minutissima but larger & obviously distinct: ant. 17; legs very stout! Dacnusa laevipectus? 1♂︎, 1♀︎, in same sweep! Ant. 21 & 20. Stigma & radial cell very long. Legs of ♀︎ much darkened, &c. Aphidius cf. sp. near brassicae, but tergite 1 testaceous; 4♂︎♂︎, ant. 16, 17, 17 & 17. A. cf. renominatus Hincks? a small ♀︎; ant. bitten off short! Proctos 2 = Mymarid 1 = Chalcids 3 = Hemiptarsenus sp. ♂︎; Dipteron = Taken at 2 & 3. [16 mounted from 2, 1 from 3, & these labelled 9.12.51.] [Epitomus & 2 Chalcids only taken at 3; remainder at 2.] Epitomus pygmaeus (agg.) ♀︎, at 3; ant. 24. Lissonota basilis? ♂︎, at alder! black coxae! Ant. 42. Porizonid 3♂︎♂︎, antennae 23-24 & 24-segmented, all at one alder: often taken here before? = Plectiscus sp. ♀︎, ant. 19. Aspilota (Synaldis) cf. rudenticornis ♀︎, ant. 18. Dacnusa laevipectus ♀︎ var. with rather dusky legs; ant. 21. Aphidius spp. 3 = A. cf. near brassicae? ♂︎, ant. 17, but tergite 1 testaceous. A. sp. small 2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 18. Procto 1 = Exallonyx? ♂︎ Chalcids 5 = Beetle: minute Staph. = Two specimens of the snail Pupa muscorum taken by M.D.S. on frond of Polypodium vulgare which grows in the sand at 2 in usual place.