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21. 18th Sept. 1952. A fine cold day, all sunny in forenoon after a clear cold night, but mainly cloudy after lunch. Left home in car about 11.30 & drove to Greystones, via Enniskerry, Rocky Valley, Delgany & Pretty Bush, then on to Greystones via Killincarrig - arriving 2.45 P.M. Stopped for half an hour to sweep roadside just S. of Tinnahinch Bridge over Dargle, but few insects out, so drove on to Delgany & then took the Prettybush road & stopped in shelter in about a mile & had lunch. After lunch swept for over an hour along sheltered (N.) side of stubble oat field & at 2.30 drove on to call on Mrs. John Palmer. Left Greystones about 4.30 & home via Glen of Downs & Enniskerry about 5.30 P.M. Roadside S. of Tinnahinch, Co. WI. 12. noon-12.30. Pimpla detrita complex ♀︎, ant. 23: the form with rather long terebra & ± all red hind tibiae. Schizopygo atra ♀︎, ant. 24. Homocidus sp.? (very near biguttatus?) ♀︎, ant. 24. Stenomacrus ♂︎ & ♀︎ = St. carbonariae Roman; ant. both 21. Blacus ruficornis ♀︎: not mtd. Dacnusa cf. avesta Nix. ♀︎, ant. 30. D.? ovalis group ♀︎, ant. 30; hind tarsus very short; tergite 1 almost hairless!! Proctos. 2 - 1 mtd. = Exallonyx confusus Nixon: "large" ♀︎ t. AWS. 22. 18.9.52, cont. Stubble field near Prettybush, S. of Delgany, Co. WI. 1:15 till 2:30 PM. Platylabus? ♂︎: not mtd. Cryptinids 6: 2 mtd. = Leptocryptus sp. ♂︎, ant. 21. Atractodes sp. (?♂︎), ant. 19. Pimpla brevicornis? small ♂︎: not mtd. Homocidus obscuripes ♀︎: not mtd. Stenomacrus curvicaudatus ? var. no areolet ♂︎, ant. 26. Stenomacrus carbonariae Rm. 1♂︎ (ant. 22), 3♀︎♀︎ ant. 20, 20/21, & 20. Mesochorus 1 minute ♂︎: not mtd. Thersilochid ♂︎: not mtd. Campoplegids 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd. Helictes 3♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Colastes braconius 1♂︎ probably off Ash tree in hedge! Not mtd. Perilitus 1♂︎, 11♀︎♀︎ cf. gracilipes Thomson; ant. ♂︎ 17, ♀︎♀︎ 19(1), 20 (10), the ♂︎ possible basalis Curtis? P. cf. caudatus Th. ♀︎, ant. 25. P. sp. near small cerealium ♀︎, ant. 20. 2 also a ♂︎ ? same species, ant. 21 P. cf. autumnalis ♀︎, ant. 18. P. sp. near maurus? 1 minute, black, ♂︎, ant. 24. Blacus cf. humilis 1♀︎, ant. 17 very short 2nd. discoidal! B. [[strikethrough]] sp. [[/strikethrough]] trivialis 3 small ♂︎♂︎ - 1 very small!, 1♀︎: ant. 19 (all 3♂︎♂︎) & 17 (♀︎) Eubadizon flavipes ♀︎, ant. 22. Opius irregularis 1♀︎ & 2 others = O. nitidulus miki (micans nobis olim), ant. 26. O. levis ♂︎, ant. 22 Chaamodon apterus ♂︎, ant. 20. Alysia tipulae, small, ♀︎, ant. only 32. Aspilota spp. minute 4: none mtd. Dacnusa areolaris? 4 (♂︎ & ♀︎) D. elegantua 2: not mtd. Ephedrus validus 7 (♂︎ & ♀︎) all v. small, none mtd. Toxares deltiger small ♂︎ ant. 19.