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27.

22.9.1953 (2)  Slade of Saggart, DU., cont.

Dacnusa laevipectus  5♀︎♀︎ not mtd. 
D. melanocera  ♀︎, not mtd. 
D. adducta  ♀︎, not mtd. 
D. calliope  ♀︎, ant. 27
Praon dorsalis √  ♀︎, ant. 20.   
Aphidius sp.  ♂︎ not mtd. 
Procto 21; none mtd.
Chalcids 7: none mtd

Took a specimen of the plume moth saxifragae in garden - seems a late date 22.9.53


23rd Sept. 1953.  

Calm, after a cold night, wind W. till 2:30 PM. when it backed E. & a series of jams formed over the hills with heavy downpours locally, light drizzle in other places & no rain at all in Dublin.  Drove in afternoon (Daisy 
& I) to Woodend, E. of Blessington, & after an hour's walk, collected by sweeping roadside, from Woodend Brook to Blessington-Ballyward road, till stopped by drizzle, where had left car along W. leg of the triangle where I have often collected before.

Roadside, Woodend, Co. WI.  4.30-5.0 PM 
[23 mtd and these labelled 27.4.54]

Cryptinids 11:  Pezomachus rufulus 3♀︎♀︎, Hemiteles, Stilpnus ♂︎, Leptocryptus ♀︎;  only one mounted =
Phygadeuon? sp. ♀︎, ant. 22.
Stenomacrus ventralis  1 very pale ♀︎; also 5 other specimens!


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23.9.53 cont.  Woodend, Co. WI., cont.

Stenomacrus melanostigma m.  2♂︎♂︎ (ant. 21), 1♀︎ (ant. 20) all rather small.
St. minutus  ♀︎, ant 17.
St. affinis, small ♀︎, ant. 22.
Plectiscus  ♂︎; not mtd. 
Aperileptus  ♀︎: not mtd.
Apanteles pallipes?  1 & A. lateralis  ♂︎: neither mtd.
Perilitus cf. varicornis M.?  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 18 & 19. 
Diopilus capito? - tergite 1 not smooth!  ♂︎, ant. 24
Blacus ruficornis  4(♂︎ & ♀︎) not mtd. 
B. tripudians  ♀︎, not mtd.
B. paganus Hal.  ♀︎, ant. 17  
B. humilis group  ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 19 & 17, respectively
Opius longicornis??  v. small, teneral, ♀︎, ant. only 23.
O. levis?  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  ♂︎ & 2 other ♂︎♂︎ like conspurcator but one has stout & the other slender tergite 1 = I think, both, are Ph. conspurcator, ant. 29 & 30, the latter much more robust.
Ph. tabida  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Aspilota fuscicornis  2♂︎♂︎ & 3 others = 
A. tumida  small ♂︎, ant. 20.
A. cf. picticornis  ♂︎, ant. 18.
A. cf. little planifrons?  a small ♀︎, ant. 17.
Dacnusa areolaris, pubescens, laevipectus & maculipes:  9 all told & none mtd.
D. diremta  ♂︎, with very red abd., ant. 30.
D. aphanta  ♀︎, ant. 24.
D. uma?  ♀︎.
D. (G.) affinis  ♀︎, very pale legs, not mtd.
D. (G.) uliginosa, large ♂︎: not mtd.
Chaenusa conjungens  2♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Praon volucre?  ♂︎, dark antennae:  not mtd.
Aphidius spp.  5♂︎♂︎: none mtd.
Monoctonus caricis, minute ♂︎, not mtd.
Proctos.  About 33: none mtd.
Chalcids  6 } none mtd.
Cynipids  3 } none mtd.