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13.9.53, cont.  Tinnode, WI., cont.

Proctos.  About 50 in sucker:  2 only mtd. = 
Cryptoserphus cumaeus Nixon:  ♀︎.  Very nice example!  AWS.  (Not seen by Nixon!).
Oxylabis maculata  ♀︎.
Chalcids  12 } none mtd.
Cynipids  7 } none mtd.
Hemipteron  1 } none mtd.


16th Sept. 1953.  Wed.

A nice day, mild, dull in forenoon, quite sunny in afternoon, but heavy rain from SE. set in at 6 P.M.;  after two dull days, with drizzle on the 14th.

In afternoon driven by George (Daisy, I, Miss Smythe & J.P. Brunker) to Glending WI-KD, where arrived at 3.10 & collected by sweeping till 5.0 P.M. when first sign of coming rain was felt as we left for home.

Only collected along edge of plantation on Wicklow side of boundary & chiefly off Ash (young trees) & oak.

Glending, Co. WI.
[7 mtd. labelled 30.3.1954!  The remainder (55) not labelled till 24.11.1965!  AWS.]

Oronotus binotatus  ♀︎, ant. 29.
Phaeogenes fulvitarsis  5♀︎♀︎.
Dicaelotus pumilus  ♀︎.
Cryptinids ca. 24, mostly ♀︎♀︎ (Hemiteles, Pezomachus & Stilpnus, &c.)  Only 6 mtd. = 
Cremnodes atricapillus, ♀︎, ant. 17.
Pezomachus, black & red ♀︎, ant. 19:  "black orbits, long 3, high ridge"!
Leptocryptus [[strikethrough]] cf. after Brischke.  ♀︎, ant. 23.  See MS. description by Pfankuch, inserted in Schmied. p.729. [[/strikethrough]]  Later.  This can't be right!  AWS.
Gen. et sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 25 = 


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Hemiteles sp.?  ♀︎, ant. 18.
H. sp.?  ♀︎, ant. 20.
[No Pimpliids!]
Stenomacrus ventralis:  only 6♂︎♂︎ & 4♀︎♀︎ in sucker!
St. 5 others = 
St. intermedius  2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 29.
St. affinis s.l.  ♀︎, ant. 20.
St. deletus?  2 small ♂︎, ant. 23 & 24.
Orthocentrus radialis √  2♀︎♀︎:  ant. both 29.
Polyblastus holmgreni  ♀︎, ant. 28.
Mesochorus cf. orbitalis var.  1♂︎, ant. 37;  1 smaller ♀︎, ant. 36.
M. sp.?  ♀︎, with heavily punctured face & mesonotum!  Ant. 38.
Plectiscids 4 = Eusterinx oligomera, ♂︎, ant. 19.
Dicolus sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 30.  D. sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 30 {Two species I think!}
Rhyssalus clavator  ♂︎: ant. 31.
Colastes decorator Hal.  ♀︎, ant. 41.
Apanteles dilectus Hal.  ♀︎:  fits description well!  AWS. 17.9.53.
Perilitus autumnalis m.  ♀︎, ant. 18.
Meteorus micropterus  ♀︎, ant. 24.
Blacus ruficornis & tripudians  3♀︎♀︎ of each.
B. ambulans  ♀︎, ant. 20.
B. humilis group 3:  2♀︎♀︎ labelled 30.3.54;  ant. both 17.  Also a ♂︎, ant. 19, with pale stigma!
B. niger sp.n.  ♀︎, looks interesting!  Ant. 17.  Type!  A.W.S. 30.3.1954.
Opius irregularis  ♂︎ not mtd. & 2 others = O. nitidulus m. ♀︎, ant. 26 & O. stenops ♂︎, ant. 23.
[[strikethrough]] Gen. et. sp.? ♀︎ small [[/strikethrough]] = Alloea contracta.