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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.