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30.6.53. cont.  Rannoch, cont.

Swept for a minute under birches at Rannoch station & took one Ich. & one Braconid only:-  Cteniscus ♂︎ - ant. 28.  & a ♀︎ Pentapleura pumilio - ant. 19.; & swept quite a lot crossing the moor towards the Lochan - mostly amongst Bog Myrtle - but the only thing of interest taken was a ♀︎ Orgilus (?scabriceps Graham MS.), a stone-fly & a small jumping beetle.  A beetle of the Malthodes group occurred here in great abundance.

Trichiosoma ♀︎ taken on railway under birch & rowan = T. latreillei Leach (Benson)?  
Tabanid Fly =  on moor!
Large Heath Butterfly very common on Rannoch Moor.
Andrena tarsata  ♂︎ Rannoch Loch.


1st July 1953. 

Equally hot & sunny after a cool misty forenoon.  Went with Marcus Graham by 9.35 bus to Killin, but in haste forgot net — so had to return to Lawers for it & only reached Killin again at 12.40 noon, but in meantime spent an hour in the glen at Lawers (= 1).  On arrival at Killin went down the road to Old Pier, found M.G. & had lunch under trees S. of level crossing & later swept around the pool (= 2) & later still swept under the limes just E. of the wooden bridge over R. Lochay (= 3) where M.G. had swept before noon.


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1.7.53. cont. Glen below road at Lawers, MP.

Insects taken at 1. 10.30-11.30 AM. 
[22 mounted & these labelled Sept. 1953.]

Phaeogenid?  ♀︎ not mtd.
Cryptinids  18: none mtd.
Cteniscids  2: not mtd.
Mesoleids?  3:  one mtd. = Mesoleius sp.  ♂︎, ant. 38.
Tryphon?  1: not mtd.
Polyblastid? = Monoblastus erythropygus??  7 (♂︎ & ♀︎):  six mtd., ant. 30, 30, 32, 32, 32 & 33.
Homocidus pectoratorius  large ♂︎: not mtd.
Orthocentrus frontator?  ♂︎, ant. 29.
Stenomacrus curvicaudatus  ♂︎, ant. 26.
Mesochorus  ♀︎: not mtd.
Exothecid ♀︎ = Colastes braconius  1 very small ♀︎, ant. bitten off at 19th seg.
Blacus tuberculatus  ♀︎ not mtd.
Diospilus capito  ♀︎, not mtd.
Opius saevus Hal.?  Ant. 33.
O. "cingulatus miki"  3:  1♀︎ mtd., ant. 33.
O. cf. flexuosus m.  ♀︎, ant. 26.
O. cf. communis [not stenops!]  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 24.
Orthostigma sp.  ♂︎, ant. 22.
Aspilota fuscescens m.  A fine robust ♀︎, ant. 18.  Also a small ♂︎ & 2 very small ♀︎♀︎, ant. 22 (♂︎), 16 & 17 (♀︎♀︎) probably only starved specimens of same species

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