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105. 11th June 1953. All sunny, very hot, but with fresh, cool, NE. wind along coast in forenoon & SE. & gentle in afternoon, but westerly in Dublin on our return at 6 P.M. Left home, with R.L. Coe, at 10.20 AM. & drove to the old ry. station at Killoughter, on the Murrough, Co. Wicklow, where collected till 4 P.M., had cup of tea & left for home at 4.40. Collected in three areas as follows: — 1. = Outside railway from Killoughter station to opposite head of The Broad Lough — mainly in sheltered flower-filled ditch beside railway & a very few insects swept on edge of sea — too windy, &c. 2 = Reed-beds, &c., at head of The Broad Lough 3 = Lane, &c., for 1/4 mile W. of Killoughter station. Killoughter, Co. WI., 11.30 AM. till 1.0 P.M. Taken at 1, outside railway & S. of station. Ichneumon confusor ♀︎, ant 34. Hylaeus hyalinatus, ♂︎, small example! Bethylus fuscicornis ♀︎: not mtd. Phaeogenid ♂︎, ant. 27 = Cryptinids 14 (nearly all ♂︎♂︎ of Atractodes sp.? of which 1♂︎ & 1♀︎, ant. 24 & 21 respect. only mounted = Perilitus seminiger ♂︎, ant. 48. Porizonid ♂︎: possibly ♂︎ of Leptopygus harpurus, ant. 32. Mesochorus small black sp. ♀︎ = M. nigripes ♀︎, ant. 23. Campoplegids 5 Bracon 5 = B. transaciculatus m.?: ♀︎, ant. 28. B. cf. anthracinus ♂︎; also ♀︎ but can't see palps; ant. of both 18. B. coriaceus m. small ♀︎ & ♂︎, ant. 32 & 36 respectively; ♂︎ has darkish legs! 106. 11.6.53 (1), cont. Killoughter, WI., cont. Acoelius subfasciatus, a minute ♂︎ on edge of sea! Perilitus niger miki: 2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 28: possibly this is only a var. of aethiops! Macrocentrus "n. sp. J.T. Lyle": ♂︎, ant. 36. Opius 7 = O. foveolatus m. ♀︎, ant. 23. O. levis ♂︎, ant. 25; another ♂︎, ant. 24; & a very miserable ♂︎ probably this sp., ant. 23, also 2 more ♂︎♂︎, ant. 23 & 24. O. lugens ♂︎, ant. 21. Aspilota concinna 2♂︎♂︎; ant. 22 & 24, the latter a more robust example! Dacnusa cyclops 1 & one other = D. thusa?? ♂︎, ant. 26, very small mandibles! Hence? Coelinius viduus 6♂︎♂︎: none mtd. Aphidius sp.? 4 - minute! None mtd. Proctotrupes gravidator ♂︎ & 4 others Chalcids abundant (12 in sucker). Cynipids 3. Beetles 2. Taken at 2. The Broad Lough, S. of Killoughter. 1.30-2.30 P.M. Pemphredon schuckardi ♂︎. Dryinid ♂︎ = Trypoxylon attenuatum ♂︎♂︎ settling on stunted oak bush in reed-bed, 500 yards above head of lough: 2 taken, others seen. This is 2nd Irish record! Bethylus fuscicornis ♂︎: not mtd.