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143. 7th July 1953. Warm & sticky in morning after rain early, later very windy (W.) with shower on the hills but none at Lawers, cold & windy in evening. Spent forenoon clearing up & afternoon in puttering about Lawers & the loch shore, but after dinner swept for about an hour in the glen (upper part only) & in spite of cold & very strong wind down & across it found quite a lot of insects about. Wood (or glen) along tributary of the Lawers Burn, Lawers, MP. 8.0-9.0 PM. [Ichneumon cf. suspiciosus large black & yellow ♂︎ taken in cornfield E. of the Kirk at 3.30 PM.] Cryptinids 9: only one, a ♂︎, mounted, face white, ant. black, scape white, pinned = Pimpla turionellae group ♂︎ = flavicoxis? pinned, scutellum yellow marked. P. cf. vesicaria Ratz. small, very slender, ♂︎: looks interesting! Ant. 23. Acrodactyla madida Hal. 2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 1♂︎, 1♀︎ both 24: other broken. Mesoleids 3: 2 only mtd. = mesoleius of ♂︎ & ♀︎, pinned. Monoblastus? erythropygus? 3♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, pinned. Polyblastus? sp. red abd., black hind femora, ♀︎, pinned 144. 7.7.53, cont. Lawers, MP., cont. Orthocentaus sp. ♂︎, not mtd. Picrostigeus recticauda ♀︎, ant. 30. Mesochorus sp. ♂︎, pinned Porizonid ♀︎ = Diaparsis? sp. ♀︎, ant. 24. Campoplegids 11: mostly "Dioctes" sp.: none mtd. Plectiscus sp. ♂︎, small, ant. 20. Bracon satanas ♂︎, ant. 36. Rhyssalus clavator ♂︎ & ♀︎, not mtd. Rogas irregularis ♂︎, ant. 53. Sigalphus nitidus miki ♀︎, widened abd. Very shining: ant. 21. Apanteles sp. ♂︎, not mtd. Microgaster calceatus? ♂︎: interesting Euphorus pallipes? ♀︎, ? smoothed pleura; ant. 22. Blacus tuberculatus 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Diospilus capito? ♀︎, small. Opius geniculatus 1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 39 & broken. O. sp. near balteatus m. ♀︎, but ant. only 24. O. sp. near cingulatus ♀︎, ant. 35. O. cf. stenops m. ♂︎, ant. broken. Adelura dictynna ♀︎, ant. 49. Aspilota efoveolata Th. very fine ♀︎, ant. 20. A. cf. fuscescens m. ♂︎, ant. 24; also a smaller ♂︎, ant. 22, ? same species. A. sp.? ♀︎, ant. 18. A. cf. clara m. ♂︎, ant. 19. Dacnusa adducta ♀︎ not mtd. D. pubescens 3♂︎♂︎ not mtd. D. sp. not mtd.! Trioxys parvicornis?? ♀︎, ant broken. Aphidius avenae? ♀︎: not mtd. Proctos. 6: none mtd. Weevil 1 = Aphodius fimetarius?