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23. 16.9.53, cont. Glending, WI., cont. Phaeoncarpa conspurcator 2♀︎♀︎. Aspilota spp. 13 - all mtd. = A. mammilata? 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 22. Also a smaller ♀︎, ant. 19. A. petiolata 2♂︎♂︎, ant 25 & 26. A. dentifemur ♂︎, ant 23. A. sp.? near sylvatica (cf. ♀︎ from Clara, WI., (1) 4.9.38, with sylvatica), but smooth propodeum, &c., ♀︎, ant. 21. A. efoveolata?, ♀︎, ant. 20. A. tumida a v. small ♀︎, ant. 16. A. cf. fuscescens? ♀︎ (boken when labelling!), ant. 19? A. sp.? ♂︎, ant. 24. A. (Synaldis) 2♂︎♂︎ of 2 species, ant. 21 & 22. Dacnusa laevipectus about 30 & all ♀︎♀︎. D. areolaris? a few ♀︎♀︎, 1♂︎. D. stramineipes 1 small ♀︎, ant. 27. D. longiradialis √ 1♀︎, ant. 21. D. diremta 1♀︎ not mtd. D. elegantula 2♀︎♀︎ not mtd. D. cyclops? 1♀︎ not mtd. D. gilvipes ♀︎, ant. 27. D. (G.) affinis 2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 25. Monoctonus caricis & nervosa 1♂︎ of each. [No other Aphidiids} Proctos in thousands, especially Serphids & a very slender large Diapriid: only 5 mounted. No sign of further specimens of Cryptoserphus arenatur Stelfox! Galesus ♂︎ of sp.2! Paramesius ♀︎ of sp. No.3 (= brachycerus Thoms.). Cinetus iridipennis ♀︎: owing to notauli not widening posteriorly to usual intent a beginner would run this down as a Leptorhaptus & hence I wasted over an hour trying to identify it in key for that genus. AWS. 27.11.65. Leptorhaptus docilis ♀︎ Chalcids 3: not mtd. Hemipteron 1 = Beetles 3 = 24. - For R.C. Faris's records from Caragh Lake SK. see p.25! 17th Sept. 1953. A very nice day with much warm sun & gentle E. breeze. In afternoon George, Daisy & I drove to Ballinascorney Gap where parked his car & walked up to ridge S. of Slievenabawnoge, ca. 1200 feet. Found the whole ridge to Ballymorefinn Hill & W. slope of same fenced in by Forestry Dept. over the watershed & well down the E. slope into Glenasmole. Followed the fence S. till it turned up again to watershed +/- in line with caretaker's house in waterworks between upper & lower reservoir. In hot sun found an excited fresh Bombus muscorum queen whose wings were abortive - mere shrivelled stumps! - running about on rocks & trying to "take off" in flight. As she could never found a colony I put her in ether bottle & noticed that the abdomen dorsally & basally was just one big cake of Gamasid mites - which mites all left her on feeling the ether. More than 150 mites retrieved from the bottle & mounted on a card & kept with the Bombus. Of the mites about 140 were larger & possibly different species (?) from the remaining smaller nine. 19th Sept. 1953. Rain & falling glass all day, till after tea. At 9 P.M. a ♀︎ Cryptus sp. caught at table-light in drawing room, but where it came from I do not know.