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139.

15th July, 1952. 

A fine day with much hot sun at Killin but showers over Ben Lawers & at times a strong cold NW wind.  Went by 9:35 bus to Killin (Daltry, Marcus Graham & I only) & swept insects in 4 areas as follows, until 3 P.M. when I walked to station to meet Desmond Meikle who had come from Kew (via Belfast & Glasgow) to join the party.

10.0-12 noon  1. = under lime trees by road to pier on L. Tay. 
12-12.45  2. = along R. Lochay, left-bank, above wooden bridge, & edge of plantation N. of 1.
1.30-20  3. = Marsh & especially around circular pond on flat between railway & loch, just S. of a level crossing 1/2 mile above pier.
2.0-2.45  4. = under limes on return from 3.

Killin, MP.

Taken at 1. 
[49 mtd. & these labelled Sept. 1952]

Cryptinids ca. 12: only 2 mtd. = Hemiteles gracilis group, ♀︎, ant. 19.
Pezomachus sp.  1 minute fuscous ♀︎, large head, ant. 17.
Glypta cf. mensurator  ♂︎, ant. 31, but declivity of propodeum strigose & not smooth & punctured.
Promethes sp.  not mtd.
Acrodactyla madida  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Bassus deletus  ♀︎: not mtd.
Stenomacrus (Neurateles) laevissimus miki (see p.151)  ♀︎, ant. bitten off.
St. (N.) cf. pusillus  ♀︎, ant. 18.
St. cf. curvicaudatus  ♂︎, var. with no areolet, ant. 27.
St. sp.n.?  ♀︎, ant. 24;  runs to deletus Thoms., but wont fit!  AWS. 5.10.52.


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15.7.52, cont.  Killin, MP., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Mesochorus:  not mtd.
Plectiscids 3 = Miomerus cf. rectangulus Thom.  (?♂︎), ant. 19.
Helictes cf. pilicornis Th.  ♀︎, ant. 29.
Pantisarthrus cf. inaequalis  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Campoplegids  3.
Bracon fulvipes?  ♀︎, terebra less than 1/2 abd., ant. 35.  Also a smaller ♀︎, ant. 31, with terebra ca. 2/3 length of abdomen!
Colastes braconius  2♂︎♂︎, small.
Microplitis spectabilis  2♀︎♀︎.
Blacus tripudians  2 (both ♀︎) ant. 19.
Diospilus capito  ♀︎: not mtd.
Opius geniculatus  ♀︎, ant. 39.
O. lunulatus, 1♂︎, 1♀︎, dark, ant. both 26.  Also a small ♂︎, ant. 25;  rather teneral?
O. cf. levis Wesm.  3♂︎♂︎, probably this species though hind coxae are pale & not fuscous & one has not smooth tergite 1, ant. 22, 24 & 24.
O. (B.) impressus  ♂︎, ant. 41. (? procerus rec. in days list;  not mtd.)
Eurytenes abnormis  ♀︎, ant. 34.
Aphaereta sp. 4  ♂︎♂︎:  3 only mtd. = one rather robust ♂︎, ant. 25 is +/- typical tenuicornis Nix.  Two minute fragile, pale, ♂︎♂︎, ant. 22 & 23 are presumably also tenuicornis, but might be minutus.
Alysia tipulae  ♂︎, ant. 43.
Alysia cf. soror Marsh.  ♀︎, small;  ant. only 33;  3rd ant. seg. short!  Agrees fairly well with M's. description!! AWS.
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  ♂︎: not mtd.
Aspilota efoveolata  ♀︎, ant. 22.
A. cf. laevifossa  ♂︎, ant. 25;  sternauli broad & short, &c.
A. cf. laevifossa?  a larger, more robust ♂︎ than last ♂︎, ant. 26.
A. cf. laevifossa  ♂︎, ant. 25.
A. sp.?  ♀︎, ant. 20.
A. sp.?  ♀︎, ant. also 20;  but stouter tergite 1 than last.
A. cf. fuscescens  ♀︎, ant. 18, legs rather dark.  Also a ♂︎, ant. 23.
A. sp.?  ♂︎, with slender 25-seg. ant., & dimple.
A. cf. tumida m.  ♂︎, ant. 21.
A. (Synaldis) cf. concolor  1 small ♂︎, ant. 19.
A. (S.) sp.  ♀︎, ant. 18.