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87. 28th May 1953. A lovely, hot, sunny day, with gentle W. wind, after a dull morning. Left home in car at 10:30 AM. & drove to Woodend - E. of Blessington - where left car & walked up & on to ridge S. of Lugnagun Great where had lunch at about 1250 feet. After lunch went along ridge & up NW. face of Sorrel Hill, 1,976 ft., where spent 1/4 hour enjoying view & catching Diptera sitting on & around the cairn. Also saw one Red Admiral Butterfly flying around summit. Collected by sweeping all the way from lunch place to summit & this = 1. Came back via the Woodend Brook & old road along SW. side of Woodend Hill & swept a few insects off Salix aurita by the brook at ca. 1,000 ft. = 2. Finally after cup of tea at car, swept sides of road along W. side of [[image]] "triangle" at Woodend, as often before: this = 3 Sorrel Hill, Co. WI. 1,250 to 1,976 ft. Taken at 1. 1.20 till 2:30 PM. [10 mtd. from 1, of which 4 are beetles labelled on 12.5.1965.] Baricheumon ♂︎. Cryptinids 16 - all ♂︎♂︎ but one - mainly Hemiteles, Phygadeuon, or Atractodes - none mtd. Lissonota magdalenae Pfankuch. A lovely ♂︎, swept! Ant. broken. Stenomacrus affinis var. C.?: ♀︎; very small; ant 23. Apanteles cf. pallipes 1: not mtd. Aspilota sp. 4♂︎♂︎ - 3 only mtd. = A.? sp. n. 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 19 & 20: dimple semi-areolated, rugose, prop. very small, dark legs = viduatus sp. n. Type! & Co-Type. AWS. 12.5.1965. A. (Synadis) rudenticornis?: ♂︎, ant. 23. 88. 28.5.53, cont. Taken at 1, cont. Sorrel Hill, WI., cont. Monoctonus & Aphidius spp. 9: 2 only mtd. = Aphidius 2 spp. 1♂︎ of each, both with very black legs: ant. 13+ & 19. Proctos. 4 } none mtd Chalcids. 6 } none mtd. Beetles 4 = Aphodius fimatarius? & Aph. ater?: one each! 2 others Diptera 3 lapponum Sericomyia lappona 3♂︎♂︎ - 3 taken at cairn at 1,976 ft. Red admiral Butterfly at cairn. [Took a small ♂︎ Hemiteles in garden, Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Bublin, in evening. 28.5.53.] Taken at 2. 1,000 ft. Off Salix aurita. Woodend Brook. 3.30 PM. [Only 3 mtd. from 2 & these labelled 11.5.1965.] Cryptinidis 3♀︎♀︎. Hemiteles sp. 2♀︎♀︎ & Habrocryptus alternator ♀︎, ant. 26. Phytodiaetus segmentator - ant. 30 ♂︎, prettily marked with white. Proctos & Chalcids 3. Sawflies. Pontania sp. 1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎. Taken at 3. Roadside at Woodend, WI. 4.45-5-15 P.M. [28 mtd & these labelled 25.5.1965] Cryptinids 7. Hemiteles & Phygadeuon ♂︎ & ♀︎, only one mtd. = Phygadeuon bonelii, ♀︎, ant. 19. Stenomacrus affinis "C." m. ♀︎, ant. 23; areolet very small!. Perilissus filicornis small ♂︎, ant. 41.
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