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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 = 


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- 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.