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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.


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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.