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15. 10.9.52, cont. Manor Kilbride, Co. Wicklow, cont. Taken at 1. Crat. Ichnenmon sicarius ♀︎, ant. 34. Phaeogenes fulvitarsis? not mtd. ♀︎ & another ♀︎ = Ph. planifrons ♀︎. ant. 28. Epitomus "pygmaeus" ♀︎: not mtd. Cryptinids 25, including Stilpnus gagates 3♂︎♂︎, & 1♂︎ & 7♀︎♀︎ others but only 5 mtd. = Pezomachus sp. wingless ♂︎, ant. 21. P. sp. ♀︎, ant. 19. Atractodes or Exolytus red abd., ♀︎, ant. 19. Gen. et sp. ♀︎, ant. 22 Gen. et sp. ♂︎, ant. 27. Pimpla small sp. with twice "[[?aungebuctet]]" front femora & black & white hind tibiae! ♂︎, ant. 20. Lampranota melancholica ♂︎, ant. 30 Cteniscus umbellatarum ♂︎ ant. 27. ♀︎ ant. 28. Stenomacras ventralis ♀︎ Stenomacus (Neurateles) laevisimus m. ♀︎ - ant. 22 swept off beech: see ♀︎ from Scotland in 1953! Exochus erythronotus? 1, reddish thorax white-marked face!! Mesochorus sp. small sp., 1♂︎, 1♀︎: ant. ♂︎ 22 -? 23, ♀︎ 26. Aperileptus cf. albipalpis 1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd. Plectiscus cf. communis 1♀︎: not mtd. (Holocremna?) fulviventris ♀︎: not mtd. Plectiscids 2, 2 = Helictes cf. pilicornis ♂︎, ant. 29. & Dicolus hirticornis ♀︎, ant. 35. Sigalphus caudatus ♀︎. Apanteles cf. fulvipes ♀︎. Meteorus cf. punctiventris ♀︎, ant. 30 & longer than obfuscator from R. Canal, p.10 ante. Blacus ruficornis ♀︎. B. humilis group = cf. exilis Nees. 1♀︎, minute, ant. 17. Ademon decrescens, large ♀︎: see p. 17 for record! -> NB Though Water Cress is giving at 2, none near there I swept at station 1. 16. 10.9.52, cont. Taken at 1, cont. Opius caesus 8♀︎♀︎ & 4 others: 3 mtd.= O. stenops, ant. 22. & O. communis m. ♀︎, ant. 24: eyes much less narrow & less elongate than in stenops! Also a ♀︎, with dimple & small, smooth, sternauli; terebra ca. 1/4 abd. cf instabilis: Wesm. ant. 24 Alloea contracta 2♀︎♀︎ (1 brachypterous!) Phaenocarpa livida ♂︎ Aspilota dentifemur 3 small ♀︎♀︎ & 10 others (6 only mtd. from last category) Asp. cf. prona 1♂︎ (ant. 23), 1♀︎ (ant.) 19 - also another ♂︎ (ant. 22). A. sp. ♀︎, ant. 21. with dimple A. sp. small ♀︎, with dimple, ant. 17. A fuscicornis? ♀︎, ant. 17. A. (Synaldis) minute ♀︎, ant. 16. A. crassifemur ♀︎, ant. 25. A. cf. minutissima ♀︎, ant. 15 A. sp. ♀︎, rugose propodeum with dimple, ant. 18. Dacnusa laevipectus 11♀︎♀︎. D. maculipes 1♂︎. D. stramineipes 1 freshly eclosed ♀︎, ant. 28. D. elegantula 13 small & mostly ♀︎♀︎. D. melanocera 1♀︎. D. diremta 2: one ♂︎, with prominent spiracles on tergite 1 mtd., ant. 26, only mtd. D. cf. avesta ♂︎, ant. 30, but stigma very long & narrow & radius springing from near base as in Rhizarcha. D. (R.) confinis ♀︎, ant. 22 D. tesmia ♂︎, ant. 30; ? sex, ant 29, tip of abd. missing? Chaenusa conjungens 1♂︎, swept in dry place under beech! Monoctonus caricus 1♂︎ - the only aphidiid taken. Proctus. Abundant: about 40-40 in sucker: 3 only mtd. = Leptorhaptus monilicornis Kieffer: ♀︎ (teste AWS 1962). Zygota micrstoma K. ♀︎ (teste AWS. 1962). Chalcids abundant: 14 in sucker: 1 Mymarid only mtd. Cynipids 3: not mtd. Beetles 2 = Bombus lucorum 1 fresh ♀︎ seen by Daisy