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25.8 53, cont.  Murrough, WI., cont.

Taken at 4 (Dry drain). 
[10 from 4 labelled 31.3.1954!  9 others labelled 15/4/1954.]

Cryptinids 7: mainly ♂︎ Hemiteles or Phygadeuon:  none mtd.
Pimpla cf. brevicornis  ♂︎: not mtd.
Schizopyga circulator √  1 very fine ♀︎; ant. 23.
Campoplegids 2 (not counting Meloboris in abundance!) = Angitia vestigialis?  ♂︎ (ant. 26) & ♀︎ (ant. 25).
Bracon fulvipes  2 large ♀︎♀︎ not mtd.
B. osculator  ♀︎ not mtd.
B. cf. rugizonatus  ♀︎,ant. 31;  but tergite 2 aciculate!
B. cf. fraudator  ♂︎, ant. 32.
B. rugosulus  2♂︎♂︎ (ant. both 25);  2♀︎♀︎ (ant. 22 & 26).
Chelonus sp.  ♀︎, ant. 22.
Microplitis mediana?  ♂︎ tergite 2 testaceous.
Hygroplites russatus  ♂︎
Dacnusa areolaris  6 (♂︎ & ♀︎) all very small: none mtd.
D. fasciata miki, lovely pair (♂︎ & ♀︎), ant. 31 & 29.
D. lugubris  ♀︎, ant. 31;  very small 4-dentate mandibles.
D. (G.) scabrifossa m.  1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 27 & 26.
Proctos.  8: only 2 mtd.
Chalcids  2: not mtd.
Beetle:  Lima septentrionalis for H.W. Daltry.


8.

28th Aug. 1953.

A warm day with no wind, but rain came on gradually in afternoon & spoiled collecting & continued till midnight.

In afternoon drove through Rathcoole & along the Kilteel road to Johnstown H., where tried collecting along roadside till net too wet & had to turn to picking blackberries.  The following insects swept:-

Johnstown, Co. DU., 3.30-4.0 P.M.
[Only 6 mtd. & these labelled 20.4.54.]

Vespa sylvestris  ♂︎ on Angelica.
Cryptinids  3♂︎♂︎, all same species?  None mtd.
Pimpla flavicoxis?  ♂︎: not mtd.
Lissonota variabilis  ♀︎, very slender, ant. 38.
Dyspetes praerogator  3♂︎♂︎: none mtd.
Mesoleid?  ♀︎, ant. 28, abd. red in centre = 
Stenomacrus caudatus √  ♀︎, ant. 24.
Porizonid  ♂︎, not mtd.
Campoplegid  ♀︎, ant. 38 = Casinaria scabra Th.?  ♀︎.
Apanteles pallipes  ♀︎ not mtd.
Opius spp.  2: not mtd.
Adelura flaviventris  ♂︎ not mtd.
Aspilota spp. 6: only one mtd. = A. (Synaldis) ♂︎, ant. 24.

Dacnusa areolaris 1♂︎;  D. adducta 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎;  D. melanocera ♂︎;  D. elegantula 1;  D. aphanta 3♂︎♂︎; D. gilvipes 1♂︎ }
Proctos:  5. }
Chalcids  4 }
Cynipids  2 }
} None of these mounted.

Beetle.  Lima septentrionalis  1 for H.W. Daltry.