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23. 18 9 52, cont. Prettybush (stubble), WI., cont. Trioxys auctus √ ♀︎, ant. 12. Aphidius spp. ca 20, all very small & mostly ♂︎♂︎ of species with testaceous abdomen: 5 mtd. = Aph. cupidis 1♂︎ (ant. 15), 1♀︎ (ant. 13). Aph. cf. eglanteriae Hal. 2♂︎♂︎ (ant. both 17), 1♀︎ (ant. 15). Proctos 8, including Proctotrupes gravidator 2 large ♂︎♂︎ 3 small species also mtd. = Opazon parvulus Hal. ♀︎. Chalcids 10: none mtd. Cynipid 1 minute, testaceous head: not mtd. 19th Sept. 1952. (Friday). Another cold, bright day, with NE wind, but more generally sunny than 18th. In afternoon drove to top of Woodtown hill & walked up to the Hellfire Tea Room & collected in the old Killakee estate (= 1) now a "National Park" & to a large extent replanted by Forestry Dept., but many deciduous trees planted as well as conifers. Nevertheless a lot of the vegetation, including trees, goes back to the period of Killakee's magnificence in the last century. I have never collected here previously! On way back to car swept edge of turnip field E. of road (= 2) for a few minutes, but cold & windy & not much taken. 24. 19th Sept. 1952. Killakee estate, Co. DU = station 1. Melanichneumon sanguinator ♀︎. Cratichneumon sp. ♂︎. Barichneumon albicinctus ♂︎ Phaeogenes cf. fulvitarsis 3♀︎♀︎, 1♂︎. Cryptinids 17, including Pezomachus sp. gonatopinus ♂︎, ant. 22 & Pezomachus sp. ♀︎ ant. 19: red & black group! Pimpla elegans ♀︎ swept off Cupressus lassoniana! Ant. 23. Polyblastus sp. ♀︎ ant. 29: red abd, black femor, but not propinquus! Alexeter semicaligatus ♂︎, ant. 47. Bassus tricinctus ♂︎ & ♀︎. Promethus pulchellus ♂︎. Homocidus tricolor, small ♂︎, ant. 22. H. sp. near megaspis?? ♂︎, ant. 21. Stenomacrus carbonariae Roman, 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. all 21. Campoplegid 1: not mtd. Thersiloachids [[strikethrough]] cf. [[/strikethrough]] 4♀︎♀︎, ant. 16(2) 17 & 18 = Plectiscus ♂︎: not mtd. Plectiscid 1 = Helictes pilicornis ♂︎, ant. 29. Colastes braconius ♀︎. Sigalphus caudatus 2♀︎♀︎. Rogas tristis ♂︎, black, ant. bitten off short. R. cf. similis Curtis 4♀︎♀︎, ant. 37, 38, 39 & 40; legs entirely pale. R. cf. circumscriptus ♂︎, ant. 39, hind femara fuscous. Perilitus 3 = C. crassifemur miki ♀︎ant. 25. P. cf. tenuipes miki 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 20 & 21. Meteorus filator? small ♀︎, ant. 21; antennae seem rather short?? Blacus humilis & trivialis 1 each: not mtd. Diospilus morosus 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 21 & 22. Opius irregularis ♀︎ & 3 others = O. lugens ♀︎, ant. 22; & O. stenops ♂︎, ant. 25; & O. diversipes m. ♂︎, ant. 26.