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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


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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?