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15.

9th Sept. 1953 

After 3 very hot & sunny days, this was much cooler & almost entirely dull; but dry.  Wind strong: N. in early morning, backing to S.W. in afternoon.

In afternoon left home at 2:30 & drove to Naas - Daisy, I, Miss Smythe & J.P. Brunker - went on to Oldtown House & later to Landenstown, Co. KD.

Collected by sweeping for half an hour in each place as follows:-  Left Landenstown at 5.5 & home 5.50 P.M.
1 = between road & reed filled lake at Oldtown House, as on ––  3.15-4.0 PM
2 = S. edge of Grand Canal & parallel drain at plantation 1/4 mile E. of Landenstown Ho.  4.30-5.0 PM

(1) Oldtown House, Naas, Co. KD.

Oronotus binotatus  ♀︎, ant. 29.
Cryptinids  9 only 2 mtd. = Phygadeuonid ♀︎;  ant. 19, tri coloured;  with short terebra!
Phygadeuonid  ♀︎, ant. 20, red at base.
Bassus "tricinctus"  ♂︎
Perilissus?
Campoplegids  2♂︎♂︎
Bracon fulvipes  large ♀︎, ant. 34, rather dull coloured.
B. rugizonatus miki, ♀︎, large, ant. 33:  possibly only a var. of tenuicornis Thomson.
Blacus diversicornis  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Leiophron ater (N.) Nal. et Marsh.  ♀︎ = subsulcatus Thoms.  Ant. 25.
[Opius geniculatus  small ♀︎: not seen when labellling on 16.11.1965. AWS.]
O. cf. aurantipes  ♂︎? var. with black apices to hind tibiae:  ant. 29.  Otherwise seems to belong here!  AWS.


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9.9.53, (1), cont.  Oldtown Ho., KD., cont.

Alloea contracta  ♀︎ not mtd.
Pentapleura pumilio  ♀︎: not mtd.
Adelura flaviventris  ♂︎, ant. 28.
Aspilota spp. 3 = A. tumida  ♂︎, ant. 20.
A. sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 24;  tergite 1 reddish, with dimple, propodeum semi-regulose, &c.
A. sp.?  small ♀︎, with dimple ant. 19:  like a small "snoutor"!
Dacnusa laevipectus abundant, nearly all ♀︎♀︎: none mtd.
D. bellina & gilvipes  1♂︎ of each: not mtd.
D. brachycephala?  ♀︎, ant. 28 (near raissa, but eyes larger & higher in head! AWS.)  This species very like my lucania!  AWS. 1965.
Praon volucre  4 (♂︎ & ♀︎), black ant.;  reddish abd.:  2♀︎♀︎ only mtd.  Ant. both 18.
Ephedrus plagiator  3 (♂︎ & ♀︎): not mtd.
Proctos  28:  4 mtd. = Conostigmus??  2 minute wingless, 1♂︎, 1♀︎.
Paramesius  ♀︎ of 2 & ♂︎ of 12:  these are I now think the 2 sexes of one species!  AWS. 1965.
Chalcids  5: none mtd.


9.9.53.
Lissonota sulphurifera ♀︎ taken in car by Daisy on return journey near Rathcoole, Co. DU.