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13. 5th July 1951. A nice morning & midday, but depression arrived about 4 P.M. & drizzle, wind & rain from SW. continued till dark with glass down two points. Took a day off the hills & spent a couple of hours at Lawers between road & Lake-shore within 1/4 mile W. of hotel & back to old pier. Filled one sucker with small hymenoptera - mostly under scrub near lake shore. Lawers, Mid Perth = (1) 5.7.51 10.30 - 12.30 noon. [45 mtd. Labelled 8.4.52.] Dryinid 3 spp. 4♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎. Cryptinids 5 = Hemiteles cf. gracilis group: 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 19 & 20. Phygadeuon sp. ♂︎, ant. 23. Ph. sp. ♂︎, ant. 26. Atractodes tenebricosus ♂︎, ant. 22. Bassus annulatus 1♂︎, ant. 20, & Promethes cognatus 1♀︎, ant. 23. Tryphon connectens ♂︎, ant. 33, var. of brunniventris! Mesoleius sp. ♂︎, ant. 39. Perilissus cf. lutescens ♂︎, ant. 31. Meloboris sp. ♂︎, ant. 37. Olesicampa cf. cavigena Th. ♂︎, ant. 37. Diospilus capito ♀︎, ant. 22. Opius irregularis ♀︎, ant. 24. O. cf. stenops miki, ♂︎, ant. 23. Aspilota sp. ♂︎, ant. 22, big head, long narrow tergite 1. Dacnusa marsyas ♂︎, very nice! Ant. 38. D. cf. asramanes ♂︎, ant. 36. D. cf. uma ♂︎, ant. 36. D. cf. bres ♂︎, ant. 33. D. elegantula ♀︎, ant. 31. D. melanocera? ♀︎, ant. 25; small! 14. 5.7.51, AM., cont. Lawers, MP. cont. Aphidius sp. ♂︎, ant. 19. Proctos 6 Chalcids 8. Dipteron 1 = Moth 1 = Asphalia flavicornis, freshly emerged; fide E.S.A. Baynes to whom I gave the specimen in 1952. A.W.S. In afternoon took 2.35 bus to Edramucky & got in about an hours sweeping on left bank of the Allt a' Mhoirneas for 1/4 mile above road before drizzle came on & stopped collecting. Sheltered under trees & came home by bus due Lawers at 6 P.M. Edramucky, Mid Perth. 3 till 4 P.M. = (2) 5.7.51. [57 mounted & these labelled on 15.4.1952.] Dryinids 3♂︎♂︎. Sawflies 4: Athalia Tenthredo mesomelas ♂︎ Abia candens ♀︎ Abia sericea ♀︎ Dipteron with curious long body & hind legs, very short front & mid legs! = Leptogaster cylindrica Deg. Hemiptera 4, the little black species very abundant! Phaeogenid? No! 1 small ♂︎ with dark neuration - Canidia - see p.14 -> Hemiteles semistrigosus Schmied.? 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 25 & 27 with peculiar sculpture on head, mesonotum, tergites 1 & 2, and areolation of propodeum almost obsolete. Agrees well except that mandibles are black & stigma fuscous.