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169.

19.7.53, cont. Lawers, MP., cont.

Taken at 2, cont.

Mesoleius sp. red femora, 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 35+ & 39. }
M. sp. black hind femora, 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 41 & 44. }
{ ? all four same sp.

Miomerus aquisgranensis  ♂︎, ant. 18.
Plectiscus sp.  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Helictes sp.  black femora, ♂︎, ant. 27.
Hel. sp.  red femora, ♂︎, ant. 29.
Campoplegid  ♂︎: not mtd.
Mesochorus spp.  4: none mtd.
Perilitus melanocera miki  ♀︎, ant. 21.
Meteorus brunneipes Ruthe.  ♂︎, ant. 27;  very dark wings.
Blacus tuberculatus 2: not mtd.
B. paganus  ♀︎, ant. 27.
B. diversicornis  ♀︎, ant. 20, with slender 4th & 5th segs.
B. maculipes  ant. 20, with much shorter & stouter segs. 4 & 5:  also a ♂︎, ant. 21.
Pygostolus sticticus  3♀︎♀︎, ant. 33, 33, 34.
Centistes lucidator  ♂︎, ant 23.
Diospilus capito, very small ♀︎, ant. 21.
Opius xanthogaster miki = singulatus nobis olim non W.  ♀︎, ant. 33.
O. cf. fuscus m.  ♀︎, ant 30.
O. cf. stenops m.?  ♀︎, ant. 24.
O. cf. communis m.?  ♀︎, ant. 25.
Pentapleura pumilio  2♀︎♀︎, not mtd.
Alloea contracta  ♀︎, ant. 21.
Alysia fuscipennis Hal.  ♂︎, ant. 37;  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 33 & 36.
Aspilota fuscescens  ♀︎, ant. 17.  ? also a small ♀︎, ant. 16.
A. tibialis m.  1♂︎ (ant. 23), 2♀︎♀︎ (ant. both 18).
A. cf. minutissima  ♀︎, ant. broken.
A. tumida  ♂︎, ant. 20.
A. rubripes  ♂︎, ant. 18, dark!
Dacnusa adducta, very nice ♀︎, ant. 29.
D. cf. aphanta, ♀︎, ant. 26, legs rather pale.
Proctos.  common: only 3 mtd. = 
Chalcids  common: none mtd.
Diptera  2 = 
Beetles  3 = 


170. 

20th July 1953. 

No wind, rain, drizzle, or very wet mist all day & vegetation dripping.  Nevertheless Daisy & I set out for the N. Corrie of Ben Lawers, via Lawers Burn, at 10.0 AM & had lunch by NW, shore of the Lochan-nan-Cat at 1.10 PM. having seen nothing of interest - See below! on the journey except Rubus chamaemorous in fruit — the bright scarlet stage! 

Intended going round The Stuic, but everything too wet & slippery to be pleasant.  Therefore went along slope W. of the Lochan & gradually worked up to the base of the big cliff (overlooking the inlet stream to the Lochan) to its southern end. Returned via S. shore of Lochan-nan-Cat & the Lawers Burn, as usual. 

Looked for plants amongst the boulders on slope W. of the Lochan & along the rills on same slope, where saw very much of Sandwith's sedge & by the rill just N. of the big cliff Juncus castaneus.  A lot of nice plants seen along base of big cliff including Chrysosplenium alternifolium, Carex atrata, Erigeron, Myosotis alpestris (in seed & flower), Sax nivalis, & many of the less rare Lawers plants.  On outward journey found a small bush of Salix philicifolia on the left bank of Lawers Burn a little below the broken footbridge & at water level & took a speciman.

Roger Waterston & Grant Roger arrived at the hotel during the afternoon.